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Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2016

Systemic Functional Linguistics Mood Analysis of the Last Address of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)

Mehwish Noor, Moazzam Ali, Fakharh Muhabat, Bahram Kazemian

Issue: Volume 4, Issue 1-1, February 2016

Pages: 1-9

Received: 20 April 2015

Accepted: 20 April 2015

Published: 5 May 2015

DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.s.2016040101.11

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This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, and Grammatical Metaphor in Political and Advertisement Discourses

Abstract: The study highlights the functional and semantic properties of the last address of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). The study is based upon Halliday’s (1985) SFL Mood analysis. The data obtained from the last address of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) are analyzed in tables. The analysis of 56 clauses reveals that 32 are declarative, 22 are imperative; whereas, on... Show More

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A Rhetorical Identification Analysis of English Political Public Speaking: John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

Qiang Zhou, Bahram Kazemian

Issue: Volume 4, Issue 1-1, February 2016

Pages: 10-16

Received: 5 July 2015

Accepted: 15 July 2015

Published: 2 September 2015

DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.s.2016040101.12

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This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, and Grammatical Metaphor in Political and Advertisement Discourses

Abstract: Since political discourse reflects the close relation between politics and language, it has attracted many scholars’ attention at home and abroad. Therefore, English political public speaking (EPPS for short), the subcategory of political discourse, has been chosen as the subject of the study. Based on the findings of Kenneth Burke’s new rhetoric a... Show More

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