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Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change : Accusations of Inconsistency in Response to Criticism.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Omar, Ahmed Abdulhameed
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019.
Colección:Argumentation in Context Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Object of research; 1.2 Approach; 1.3 Aims and research questions; 1.4 Organization of the study; Chapter 2. Al Aswany's call for democracy in the Al Shorouk columns; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The political situation in Egypt before 2011; 2.3 Al Aswany's public stature; 2.3.1 Fifteen years of anti-regime writing; 2.3.2 The impact of The Yacoubian Building: A revival of the political novel
  • 2.4 Al Aswany's political columns in Al Shorouk from a stock issues perspective2.5 The topics discussed in the columns addressing the feasibility issue; 2.6 Al Aswany's audience and its frame of reference; 2.6.1 The Al Shorouk audience: Supporters of an alternative political path; 2.6.2 Al Aswany's followers: Respondents to a second wave of committed literature; 2.7 Conclusion; Chapter 3. An argumentative characterization of Egyptian political columns; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Opinions in printed newspapers; 3.3 The pragma-dialectical approach to the contextualization of argumentative practices
  • 3.4 The institutional point of political columns3.5 Political columns as an argumentative activity type; 3.5.1 The argumentativeness of a political column; 3.5.2 The initial situation; 3.5.3 Procedural starting points; 3.5.4 Material starting points; 3.5.5 Means of argumentation and criticisms; 3.5.6 Possible outcomes; 3.6 Conclusion; Chapter 4. Strategic maneuvering with arguments from example: The "active people" topic; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The circulated image of the Egyptian people in Mubarak's era; 4.3 Al Aswany's discussion of the "active people" topic
  • 4.4 The argumentative predicament of evaluating a political group by means of examples4.5 The "Egypt awakened" case; 4.6 "The coming civil disobedience on April 6th." case; 4.7 Conclusion; Chapter 5. Strategic maneuvering by means of a narrative perspective: The "defeatable police" topic; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The public image of the Egyptian police before 2011; 5.3 The argumentative functions of a narrative perspective; 5.4 The "An unfortunate incident befalling a state security officer" case; 5.5 The "Why was the general screaming?" case; 5.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Strategic maneuvering by means of an allegorical fable: The "victorious protesters" topic6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Beast fable, allegory, and allegorical beast fable; 6.3 Speech-act-based approaches to fiction; 6.4 Justifying an allegorical interpretation of a beast fable; 6.5 The conceptual aspects of an allegorical beast fable; 6.6 Reconstructing an allegorical beast fable as a critical discussion; 6.7 Strategic maneuvering in the "A story for children and adults" case; 6.8 Conclusion; Chapter 7. Conclusion; Appendix A. Egypt awakened