Strategic maneuvering for political change : a pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns /

Strategic maneuvering for political change : a pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns /

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Omar, Ahmed Abdulhameed (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:Argumentation in context ; 16.
Subjects:
Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, > 1957- > Criticism and interpretation.
Since 2000
Arab Spring, 2010- > History > Sources.
Press > Egypt > History > 21st century.
Egypt > History > Protests, 2011-2013 > Sources.
Sources.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Al Aswany's call for democracy in the Al Shorouk columns
  • An argumentative characterization of Egyptian political columns
  • Strategic maneuvering with arguments from example: the "active people" topic
  • Strategic maneuvering by means of a narrative perspective: the "defeatable police" topic
  • Strategic maneuvering by means of an allegorical fable: the "victorious protesters" topic.