Persuasive Tactics in a Politician’s Call for Burying the Hatchet: A Linguistic Analysis | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 08 October 2021 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2021.99150.1301 | ||
| Author | ||
| Rania Abdel Meguid* | ||
| قسم اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها، کلية الآداب، جامعة الإسکندرية، الإسکندرية، جمهورية مصر العربية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Politicians make use of a variety of persuasive tactics in order to change their audience’s attitudes to the best of their own interests. The photo of Egyptian actor Mohammed Ramadan embracing Israeli singer Omer Adam in Dubai, which went viral on social media in November 2020, caused backlash among Egyptians, especially after the photo was posted a few days later on an official Israeli Facebook page entitled isrāʾīl tatakallam bil- ‘arabiyyah (Israel Speaks in Arabic). After waves of anger flooded social media, condemning Ramadan as a traitor, a video was posted on the Israeli page, featuring a senior Israeli official addressing Egyptians in an attempt to convince them to turn the page on a history of conflicts. Through the analysis of code choice, lexical and syntactic choices, and speech acts, the paper aims to investigate the persuasion tactics used by the speaker to convince the Egyptian people to change their attitude towards normalization with Israel. Politicians usually deliver speeches to win the favour of their peoples, so the speech analyzed in worth investigating in an attempt to investigate the linguistic tools employed by the speaker in the persuasion tactics he uses when addressing the people of another nation. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Persuasion; Code Choice; Lexical Choices; Syntactic Choices; Speech Acts | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 328 |
||
