Developing a rhetorical model of analysis of allusion by reference to presidential American debates

Abstract EN

Allusion means that the speaker or writer refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an exterior context where the connection is inferred by the reader or the listener.

Thus, it is termed a reference.

Allusion positions the alluded text in a new context under which it undertakes new meanings and significations.

However, it is impossible to encode the nature of all the new meanings and inter-textual patterns that an allusion produces.

In Presidential American debated, the politicians tend employs this phenomenon extensively because they wants to make the utterances more persuasive in the context in which they occur.

This work is intended to suggest a model to analyze this phenomenon in the Hillary/ Trump debates from a pragmatic perspective mentioning the main strategies utilized in this regard.