The Argumentative Power of the Rhetorical Language in 'All Quiet on the Western Front': A Pragmatic Study

KOTB, NAGLAA MUHAMMED EL SAYED

doi:10.21608/jssa.2019.62098

The Argumentative Power of the Rhetorical Language in 'All Quiet on the Western Front': A Pragmatic Study

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NAGLAA MUHAMMED EL SAYED KOTB

10.21608/jssa.2019.62098

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This paper investigates the practice of writing implicit argumentation in political narratives by discussing a corpus consisting of some selected dramatic passages of Erich Maria Remarque's 'im westen nichts neues' commonly translated with unrivaled reputation by Arthur Wheen Fawcett Crest's 'all quiet on the western front'. The purpose of this study is to help appreciate and advance the skill of writing implicit rhetorical argumentation by examining how it is employed and defined by Remarque in this novel. Advancing rhetorical argumentation requires implicit arguments that require specific logical procedures such as inferential licensing for interpretation. Therefore, the research here is qualitative relying on observation and falls into the area of pragmatics: the analyses of the passages help the reader to interpret the writer's implicit politically dangerous messages.

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