عنوان المقال عربي
التوازي في أحد خطابات هيلاري كلينتون: تحليل نقدي للخطاب
Abstract
Parallelism is a linguistic phenomenon. It refers to the use of the same pattern of words for two or more ideas having the same degree of importance arranged in successful lines and in a balanced manner, enabling the reader to understand the meaning or grasp the relationship between ideas. Stylistically, parallelism, with its different types, is used by politicians to persuade audience to sympathize with their views, and make their speech more memorable. This paper studies parallelism as a rhetorical device from a critical discourse perspective following van Dijk's (1993) socio-cognitive approach and his notion of Ideological Square (2006a). The present study investigates how Hillary Clinton (Democratic presidential nominee) has made use of parallelism in her political speech during "the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention" in December, 2016. The study has concluded that parallelism is an important device used to show and reflect dominance, the central intention of this approach, in the political context. Moreover, it is used by Hillary to reflect the positive properties and others' negative ones, hence it helps her in expressing her ideology.
Keywords
Critical Discourse Analysis, Parallelism, Political Discourse, Rhetoric, Socio-Cognitive Approach
Recommended Citation
Almehmdawi, Saleema AbdulZahra
(2025)
"Parallelism in One of Hillary Clinton's Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis,"
Uruk for Humanities: Vol. 11:
Iss.
3, Article 16.
Available at:
https://muthuruk.mu.edu.iq/journal/vol11/iss3/16
