Dictatorship is democracy: The persuasive power of performance, repetition, and silence in Arabic political speechmaking in Assad's Syria
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Kellie Stirling
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Huckin, Thomas N.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of Utah
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
167
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: Al-Saleh, Asaad; von Sivers, Peter
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-55551-6
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
College of Humanities
Body granting the degree
The University of Utah
Text preceding or following the note
2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This thesis is an analysis of performance, linguistic repetition, and silence in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's March 30, 2011 speech to the People's Assembly given 2 weeks after riots erupted in the Syrian province of Deraa on March 15, 2011. Various types of repetition including syntactic parallelism, word strings, lexical repetition, and phonological and morphological repetition particular to Arabic syntax and its root and pattern system of morphology are analyzed along with manipulative silence and performance aspects of the speech.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Linguistics; Middle Eastern Studies; Rhetoric
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arabic;Critical discourse analysis;Political speechmaking;Repetition;Syria;Textual silence