30.1251, Books: Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: Omar

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Subject: 30.1251, Books: Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: Omar

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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 17:41:48
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: Omar

 


Title: Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change 
Subtitle: A pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns 
Series Title: Argumentation in Context 16  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/aic.16 


Author: Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262806 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262806 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262806 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202383 Pages: 188 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202383 Pages: 188 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202383 Pages: 188 Price: Europe EURO 95.40


Abstract:

In "Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change", the author analyzes five
political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian
novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of
argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative,
fictional and semi-literary techniques to strategically maneuver in supporting
the feasibility of political change. It is a contribution to explain how an
anti-regime writer paved the way to the Arab Spring in Egypt, and thus goes
against a common opinion that the Arab Spring in Egypt was fortuitous or a
wholly social-media-based movement. 

This monograph is an attempt to help argumentation theorists, linguists,
analysts of narratives, and political scientists better understand and
evaluate how fiction and narration can be effective means of persuasion in the
domain of political communication. It therefore reconsiders the
non-straightforward and artistic variants of the language of politics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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