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Analyzing Political Discourse: Rhetoric, Power, and Resistance provides a comprehensive investigating tool for the researchers in the field of Arab political discourse analysis. With 400 pages, this book introduces the key terms, concepts, and methods of Arab political discourse analysis, and reviews the most influential works in the field (which is written by European, American, and Arab scholars). In addition, it offers analytical examples of how to analyze various (ancient and modern) political speeches. The book consists of two sections: theory and analysis. In the first section, the author dedicates chapter 1 to undertaking a wide-range review of Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) in Western and Arab contexts via describing its approaches and methodologies through the past half-century. The review also explains the interactions between PDA and other fields such as Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Political Science, and Linguistics. Chapter 2 gives a coherent account of one of the most influential trends in studying political discourse, namely Critical Discourse Analysis. Chapter 3 includes an elaborate critical review of the Arabic studies on political speech.
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