الوظيفة الحجاجية للاستعارة : خطب الشيخ عبد الرحمن السديس نموذجا

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This research paper deals with the argumentative function of metaphor in Dr.

Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais's Gomaa speeches (Friday Speeches) as a tool of thinking and a knowledge structure that affects the text itself and the recipients.

It covers with analysis one of the most important issues in the social and political arena that casts its shadow over the world including the Arab World: it is terrorism with its interrelated misconceptions and deviant ideas.

The concept of terrorism has been dealt with in seven speeches of Dr.

Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais.

This paper tackles the metaphor in these speeches in five chapters: Chapter one: The Concept of Argumentative Function.

Chapter Two: The Argument in Arabic Rhetoric.

Chapter Three: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor and the Impact of the Context in its Employment.

Chapter Four: Declarative Metaphor and Production of in the sermons of AlSudais.

Conclusion & Recommendations The paper reached the conclusion that the speeches of Dr.

Al-Sudais were not reportative in their main context but they were of a modulatory effect in the greatest part.

It appeared that Al-Sudais employed the rhetorical image from an argumentative perspective based on his power of Persuasion.

Such a rhetorical feature asserts the argumentative and persuasive nature of AlSudais's speeches.

His speeches grant vigor to the energies of speech, and carries other meanings that lead to a change in the perceptions and attitudes of recipients.

His speeches make the recipients abandon discord and replace it with a spirit of love and harmony; the thing that guarantees the happiness and solidarity of our nation.