Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 20 University of Graz (Anglistik) course: Textlinguistik language: English abstract: This seminar paper contains a linguistic analysis of argumentation-patterns in newspaper articles on politics. Reports on the Iranian nuclear program are critically examined paying particular attention to the triangle language-poltics-media. Hoey's Goal-Achievement-Pattern has been employed as the main methodology.