Mazraani Nathalie. Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making

Routledge, 1997. — xii, 264 p. — ISBN: 0-7007-0673-9.This study of Arabic political discourse attempts to explore the relationship of language forms to language functions, through the speeches of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Al Gaddafi. Each chapter concerned with the study is dedicated to a linguistic analysis of language variation and to observations of how language variation is used for communicational purposes by the politician.The sociolinguistic frameworkArabic and the Fergusonian dichotomyObjectives of this book
Methodology
The study
Presentation of analysis
Technical terminology used in this study
Defining sequences
Involvement
Form and Function in the Egyptian data
The data and macro-level contextual factors
The sociolinguistic situation in Egypt
Analysis of the data: some preliminary comments
Language form and language function
Form and Function in the Iraqi data
The data and macro-level contextual factor
The sociolinguistic situation in Iraq
Analysis of the data
Language form and language function
Form and Function in the Libyan data
The data and macro-level contextual factors
Sociolinguistic pattern in Libya
Analysis of the data
Language form and language function
Forms and functions: shared tendencies in the data
Comparison of the three sets of data
The political speech as a textual genre
Universality of form-function relationships: Comparison of Arabic and English political discourse
Rhetorical tactics in Arabic and English political speeches
Universality of political strategies
General conclusionEgyptian data - 1957 speech
Egyptian data - 1962 speech
Iraqi data - 1980 Press conference
Libyan data - 1978 sermon
Libyan data - 1981 speech