Selected Erdogan’s Speeches to the Islamic World: A Pragma-Dialectic Analysis

Abstract

Erdogan's role has become apparent and influential in the Middle East with great popularity from the Arab public. This is due to his professional and inspirational use of political speech with solid arguments used by Erdogan in his speeches. The arguments succeeded to convince his audience to achieve some political goals regionally and globally. Therefore, there is a need to investigate this phenomenon to learn how political speeches are built and how politicians use a lot of arguments. The arguments are structured in a way to convince the audience regardless of their objectives and intentions. The pragma-dialectic model is based on arguments and the use of rhetoric devices in the speeches. It categorizes the stages of arguments and defines the rhetoric devices into three categories managing to obtain the audience sympathy to his ideas to direct them to keep paying attention and sympathy to the issues of the Islamic world. Erdogan has a very professional use of arguments to persuade his audience built on an argumentative way.