| Summary: | Germany has become one of the countries that most hosted refugees from armed conflicts in the region of Syria. Chancellor Angela Merkel, with her policy of open borders, has been criticized, especially by the party Alternative For Germany (AFD) – represented by Frauke Petry, who made strong caveats to this practice and claimed that illegal immigrants should be stopped, with use of force if necessary. The analytical discursive corpus of this work consists of an announcement made by Merkel to the German people and an interview given by Petry. Its theoretical framework is based on the work sequence on discursive corpus proposed by Courtine (2009), which showed an overlap between law and politics in both speakers’ motivation for speech acts.
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