Emotive expressions in President Bashar Al-Assad’s political speeches with an eye to translation

Añadido por asistente1@acuedi.org - Dec 17, 2013 - Lingüística

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The main purpose of this paper is to examine the figures of speech used in Arabic political speeches as a tool of communication to gain political advantages. The analysis of the data will mainly depend on four emotive figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, and euphemism. Throughout the study, detailed analysis of how emotive expressions are translated from Arabic into English, maintaining the emotive content of the source texts (the written manuscript of a speech), is also examined. The Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s political speeches are taken as a sample, (the Syrian President will be referred to here after as Al-Assad). An explanation of possible ways of rendering the emotive expressions accurately and effectively into English follows.


Qasem Al-Hamad, M. & Awad Al-Shunnag, M. (2011). Emotive expressions in President Bashar Al-Assad’s political speeches with an eye to translation. Onomázein, nro. 23, pp. 149-170.

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