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" Transitivity Analysis of the Saudi Fridays' Orations During the Arab Spring "
Alaufi, Hamed Marzuq
Al-Ani, Salman H.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1110208
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TLpq2478076303
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Al-Ani, Salman H.
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Alaufi, Hamed Marzuq
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Transitivity Analysis of the Saudi Fridays' Orations During the Arab Spring\ Alaufi, Hamed MarzuqAl-Ani, Salman H.
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Indiana University
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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205
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This study applies Halliday's Transitivity Analysis, an essential tool of Systemic Functional Linguistics for probing ideational metafunction of language, to two fiery Friday orations delivered by two radical Saudi orators represent the Shiite and Sunni sects in Saudi Arabia during the Arab Spring. Also discussed is the intertextual characteristics of the orators' texts. Thompson's (2008) transitivity approach which measures Transitivity Concordances (TC), Transitivity Templates (TT), the Cline of Dynamism (COD), and the Score Table of Dynamism (STD) are also employed in the data analysis. Utilizing the above-mentioned approaches, weexamine the orations forms and structure paying particular attention to their lexico-grammatical significance, participants' roles, and the orator's formulae. We also synthesize and analyze thetexts' continuum of effectuality.The data were obtained from YouTube and consisted of orations by: (a) Al-Nimr, a Saudi Shiite preacher, who motivated the Shiite protests in the Saudi Eastern Province; and (b) Al-Arifi, a Saudi Sunni preacher, who promoted youth mobilization from many countries to fight inSyria. The first oration (data) which was delivered in October 2011 by Al-Nimr, the Shiite Saudi preacher, to criticize a Saudi government's statement about protesters. The second oration (data)was delivered in June 2013 by Al-Arifi, a Sunni preacher who promoted youth mobilization from many countries to fight in Syria. We identify the orators' transitivity choices, intertextualityincorporation, leading entities, orators' formulae, and the entities' major impact. A mixedmethod approach of quantitative and qualitative are employed in the analysis.The study's findings demonstrate that all transitivity processes are used with differentdistribution and domination except the existential process that is absent in Al-Arifi's. Intertextuality gives credence to the orators' arguments by creating resemblance of the oration with previous texts and in process distribution. Regarding effectuality, the most reoccurring entity does not mean that it is the most influential; indeed, it can be the least influential. 'You', 'We', and the noun phrase, 'the legislator,' are the most influential entities in both orations. Thepronouns give the orator credit to focus on the attendees as individuals or join them by the oratorto react against those mentioned events. The latter reveals the importance of intertextuality in the studied Islamic discourses as a back-up for the orator. The theoretical and methodological approaches help to synthesize better and analyze the orators' linguistic and discursive choices. They enable the audience and the analysts to follow through the logic of orator's texts, the text's textures, co-texts, and contexts which are all woven into a web of assemblage.
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Linguistics
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Middle Eastern history
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Rhetoric
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Sociolinguistics
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