Presentation As Proof: The Language of Arabic Rhetoric  

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Koch, Barbara Johnstone

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 25 no. 1 (1983), page 47-60.
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This paper summarizes the results of a linguistic analysis of several persuasive texts in contemporary Arabic. The texts are characterized by elaborate and pervasive patterns of lexical, morphological and syntactic repetition and paraphrase. Repetition is shown to provide far more than ornamental intensification in Arabic prose; rather, it is the key to the linguistic cohesion of the texts and to their rhetorical effectiveness. In contrast to Western modes of argument, which are based on a syllogistic model of proof and made linguistically cohesive via subordination and hypotaxis, Arabic argumentation is essentially paratactic, abductive and analogical. It persuades by making its argumentative claims linguistically pre- sent: by repeating them, paraphrasing them, and clothing them in recurring structural cadences. I suggest that this mode of argumentation is a corollary to the cultural centrality of the lughah (the Arabic language) in Arab-Islamic society.

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