Investigating linguistic strategies of persuasion in "the lumber room" by saki with specific reference to johnstone's model : a stylistic study

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The current study is a stylistic study of Saki's short story "The Lumber Room" applying Barbara Johnstone's model to inspect three linguistic strategies of persuasion throughout the story.

Specifically, this work is meant to investigate persuasion as an influential concept and to analyse the various strategies and techniques of persuasion that are used by the main characters to persuade each other.

It includes qualitative and quantitative analyses to fulfill its aims, and to verify its key hypotheses.

The findings show that the utilization of Johnston's three persuasive strategies- quasilogical, presentational and analogical- is closely related to the context of the story under investigation.