A discursive analysis of persuasive metaphors in president Abd el-Fattah el-Sisi's speech in the ceremony of woman appreciation

Abstract EN

Events, conflicts, and challenges Egyptians face during President Abd El-Fattah El-Sisi era have a crucial impact on his speech acts.

In his emotional, informative, persuasive, or motivational speech act, he shows respect to Egyptian women and a human touch that is directed to all the Egyptian categories.

This paper aims at investigating politicians' effect on their audience by examining specific types of utterances, or speech acts, they use when delivering their speeches to support their people.

The paper applies the Charteris-Black's (2014) persuasion theory as a framework for analyzing presidential speeches to have a better understanding of the political purpose of these speeches.

The theory provides a vehicle to classify speech acts to reveal the linguistic and political underpinnings that President Abd El-Fattah El-Sisi represent during crucial events in the life of Egyptian people with reference to women's role.

Results of the analysis have provided evidence of the fact that socio-political events witnessed by the country have a great impact on the types of speech acts performed by the Egyptian president in presidential speeches with different motives.