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Orality in Persian Argumentative Discourse: A Case Study of Editorials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Leila Khabbazi-Oskouei
Leila Khabbazi-Oskouei*
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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Abstract

Languages have their own distinctive styles of argumentation. It seems some languages like Arabic and Persian have a preference for using the “oral” features of parataxis, formulaicity and repetition as persuasive devices in argumentation. The purpose of this article is first to examine these “oral” characteristics in Persian argumentation, and then to tie together the two areas of research: the study of orality and the study of metadiscourse. The article claims that these oral characteristics in Persian are means of gaining rhetorical effectiveness. Therefore, they should be considered as metadiscourse devices used to create a bond between writer and reader.

Keywords

ArgumentationOral FeaturesParataxisFormulaicityRepetitionRhetoricMetadiscourse
Type
Articles
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Iranian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , July 2016 , pp. 677 - 691
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2015

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Footnotes

This article is her second thesis-driven paper.

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