The current study rhetorically analyses Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar movie and novelisation as a case study via an eclectic framework based on models suggested by Kenneth Burke (1969) of rhetoric and Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (1971) of discourse analysis.
Mapping Rhetorical Appeals onto Discourse Tools: An Integrated Analysis of English and Arabic Popular Fictional Stories
مجلة واسط للعلوم الانسانية
Vol. 21
Issue 1
1075-1042
2025
Mapping Rhetorical Appeals onto Discourse Tools: An Integrated Analysis of English and Arabic Popular Fictional Stories
The current study investigates ten extracts taken from two collections of popular fictions; 'The Darcy Monologues' edited by Boyd and (اشياء صغيرة/ The Little Things) written by Samira Azzam.
Appraisal Theory as a Linguistic Tool to Analyse Jose Saramago’s Blindness
Social Science Journal
Vol. 12
Issue 3
2358-2378
2022
Appraisal Theory as a Linguistic Tool to Analyse Jose Saramago’s Blindness
This study proposes that it is possible to combine approaches from critical discourse analysis with appraisal theory to broaden one's perspective on the many factors beyond the individual's control that shape an evaluation's final form and intended meaning. The data for this study was collected from Jose Saramago's Blindness, namely 10 extracts taken from the climax of the story.