Course Description:
Political and diplomatic languages are technical languages in close contact with rhetoric, stylistics and discourse
analysis. The scope of a political text can be persuasion, reasoning, or even deceit, all of which require a specific
language use. This course focuses on techniques of persuasion and argumentation in political texts and introduces
students to the hidden, subliminal meaning of political discourse, with particular focus on the specific functions of political
terminology, including: the expressive function, objective function, and symbolic function.
Course Objectives:
- Recognize the distinctive features of a political text
- Develop linguistic, analytical and logical skills
- Learn and collect political terminology
- Distinguish between the different functions of a political text
- Identify the differences between political systems in the British/American and Arab worlds
- Reproduce an accurate translation of a political text from English into Arabic