%0 Journal Article
%T Emotive expressions in President Bashar Al-Assad¡¯s political speeches with an eye to translation
%A Mohammad Qasem Al-Hamad
%A Mohammad Awad Al-Shunnag
%J Onom¨¢zein : Revista de Ling¨¹¨ªstica, Filolog¨ªa y Traducci¨®n
%D 2011
%I Facultad de Letras - Pontificia Universidad Cat¨®lica de Chile
%X The main purpose of this paper is to examine the figures of speech used in Arabic political speeches as a tool of communication to gain political advantages. The analysis of the data will mainly depend on four emotive figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, and euphemism. Throughout the study, detailed analysis of how emotive expressions are translated from Arabic into English, maintaining the emotive content of the source texts (the written manuscript of a speech), is also examined. The Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's political speeches are taken as a sample (the Syrian President will be referred to here after as Al-Assad). An explanation of possible ways of rendering the emotive expressions accurately and effectively into English follows.
%K Emotive expressions
%K political discourse
%K translation
%K figures of speech
%K Bashar Al-Assad.
%U http://www.onomazein.net/23/23-06.pdf