A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Equivocation in a Religious Text

1Iman Mingher Obied Alshemmery, Salih Mahdi

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Abstract:

This study looks over equivocation in religious texts as one of the strategy employed by preachers in their sermons. Its intent is exhibiting the types, functions, and stylistic tools of equivocation utilized by a religious man who is regarded as an authorize person in his society. In a sense that preacher cannot get rid of equivocation and he appoints it using different stylistic tools. Additionally, he employs it for different reasons.

Keywords:

Critical stylistics, Equivocation, Ideology.

Paper Details
Month7
Year2020
Volume24
IssueIssue 3
Pages4800-4805