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بلاغة الاقناع في مقالات غازي القصيبي في ضوء مبادئ ارسطو الاقناعية == Rhetoric Of Persuation In The Essays Of Ghazi Al - Qusaibi In Light Of Aristotilian Principles Of Persuation
Author name:
شيماء عثمان محمد
Supervisor name:
فالح كامل اسكندر المنصوري
General topic:
Arabic Language and Literature
Specific topic:
Literature
Degree:
Doctorate
University:
University Of Basrah - College Of Literature - Department Of Arabic Language
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Basrah
First pages:
01T4484 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Modern studies of rhetorics are interested in persuasion as one of the objectives in realistic prosodic discourse that involves displaying personal thoughts and ideas by employing certain technique to contribute to persuading the addressee of the discourse directed to him.Aristotle was the first who talked about persuasion and described in details the techniques and stages in prosodic discourse in his book ‘Oratory ’. Thus, the researcher preferred this book to be the main source and guide in our study of the techniques of persuasion in essays of Ghazi Abd Al - Rahman Al - Qusaibi, which were gathered from newspaper a journals and edited in a book.A question might be raised about the validity of studying such essays that belong to an independent genre with its own characteristics and aims. The answer is that the two genres ( essay and oratory) are similar in type. Both of them are realistic prosodic discourses and thus can be built by the same tools of persuasion. On the other hand, Aristotle began his work in this book by classifying oratory into three types : argumentative, consultative and proving. He assigned specific characteristics for each type as we will mention in details later. The researcher found an artistic and objective similarity between consultative oratory and essay specially in the aims behind using them.Additionally, Greek oratory at that time, in addition to drama, was a well - known and common tool of communication with people to convey thoughts, ideas, suggestions, and reforms. With time, techniques of communication developed and the press emerged and thus essay becomes one of the genres that can achieve the same aim intended by oratory. Furthermore, topics and subjects of ancient and modern Arabic and western rhetorics were influenced by the Greek rhetorics and ideas of Aristotle. Those subjects and ideas were not assigned to be conveyed in a certain specific genre. Rather, they were conveyed both as prose or poetry and not in a specific genre. All the reasons mentioned above led us to study rhetorics of persuasion and the techniques it utilizes in essay writing in light of the techniques that were set as bases for oratory.Our main source in this study is Aristotle’s ‘Oratory’, translated from Greek and introduced by Dr. Abd Al - Rahman Badawi and published by the House of Public Cultural Affairs in the Journal of Afaq Arabbia, Baghdad, **edition.The researcher adhered to Aristotlian principles in persuasion. Accordingly, the study is divided into an introduction and three chapters. The introduction highlights three points. The first point is abaut rhelorics in language and terminology and its status and development for the Greeks and its relation to persuation. The secand is persuasion in language and terminology, persuasion in verbal communication, introducing the idea of persuasion by Aristotle and stages and participants of persuasion. The third point tackles the essay and its types.Chapter one ‘ Source of the Proofs’ starts with preliminaries in which we show what it is meant by the source of the proofs and Aristotle’s opinion of them. The chapter includes three sections; a section for each source. The first section is about the speaker ( the orator) and his impact on persuasion and his scientificity and ethics that help him achieve persuasion. Section two sheds light on the speech of the orator and what participants and proofs it should contain to contribute to achieving persuasion. Section three talks about the listener (the addressee) and what should be the effect on him so as to persuade him of what is said.Chapter two ‘ The Style’ starts with a long section of preliminaries because of the much details about Aristotle’s style. The chapter includes three sections. Section one is about the linguistic style that contribute to achieving persuasion whereas section two is about the rhetorical styles as represented in the rhetorical images. Section three tackles the other styles including those mentioned by Aristotle i.e. narration, saracism and rhyme as techniques that support towards persuasion.In the preliminaries of chapter three ‘Sequence of the Discours’, the researcher talks about the parts of speech of Aristotle and the method that should be followed to classify them. In section one of the chapter, the researcher discusses the introduction and its types in essays of Ghazi Al - Qusaibi : section two discusses the intext and section three is about the conclusions.The Study arrived at some conclusions concerning the most important techniques that Ghazi Al - Qusaibi used to persuade his readers about the thoughts, ideas that he wrote to them and that might developed the society culturally, politically, and economically. Definitely, the researcher faced some difficulties; the most complicated of them is that the text of the book of oratory itself is translated and not the origin. The style is sophisticated and some of the expressions are ambigious; its terms are different from those known in books of Arabic rhetorics and in modern rhetorical studies. This difference can be obviously seen in the illustrative examples put by Aristotle for every term. The expressions were very abbreviated and shortened especially those when Aristotle talked about ethics of the speaker and how they could be reflected in his speech. Consequently, the researcher depended on books of modern linguistic and rhetorical studies that are concerned with rhetorics of discourse and pragmatics in language
