Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh; Othman Al-Shboul; Abdel Rahman Altakhaineh; Roa’a Al-Nusairat
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The study elucidates His Royal Highness (HRH) Crown Prince Al-Hussein’s insightful vision to empower youth through a critical analysis of the rhetoric and persuasive patterns used in his speeches. The thematic analysis reveals his adept use of distinctive grammatical, lexical, and rhetorical features ...
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The study elucidates His Royal Highness (HRH) Crown Prince Al-Hussein’s insightful vision to empower youth through a critical analysis of the rhetoric and persuasive patterns used in his speeches. The thematic analysis reveals his adept use of distinctive grammatical, lexical, and rhetorical features in his speeches, highlighting the significance of crucial issues concerning youth, such as peace and security. He employs a stylistic strategy that includes the perfect use of endearing, supportive, and persuasive lexicon, pronouns, repetition, rhetorical questions, comparative and superlative structures, intertextuality, metaphor, and presuppositions. He has presented youth as an ideology, perceiving them as peacemakers and powerful forces that society should harness for a prosperous country. He has portrayed a youth generation that is conscious, active, optimistic, patriotic, ambitious, and open-minded. They invest their time, innovative thoughts, energy, and technological skills to build their capacity and turn obstacles into opportunities for a prosperous future.
Othman Khalid Al-Shboul; Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh; Hady J. Hamdan; Naji Alqbailat
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This study analyzes Biden’s political speech on raising governmental funds as a macro speech act which instantiates the speaker’s purpose behind this discourse. It draws insights from some pragmatics and discourse analysis theories, developed by Austin, Searle, and Van Dijk, as a point of ...
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This study analyzes Biden’s political speech on raising governmental funds as a macro speech act which instantiates the speaker’s purpose behind this discourse. It draws insights from some pragmatics and discourse analysis theories, developed by Austin, Searle, and Van Dijk, as a point of departure to develop an analytical framework with two levels (micro and macro levels) to analyze this political discourse. Despite a great deal of research conducted on speech acts from a pragmatic perspective, very few studies examined speech acts existing in a connected manner (a sequence of speech acts) in political discourse. This study bridges pragmatics and discourse analysis claiming that directives complement expressives, assertives, and commissives. This complementary between these classes built the speaker’s authoritative, affective, persuasive, responsible, and supportive identity that enables him to present his perspective effectively and appealingly. These acts blend into this discourse to form a macro speech act. This macro act represents the intended speaker’s purpose behind this discourse.