The Sentence In Arabic And English Political Speeches: A Contrastive Study.

This study compared and contrasted some syntactic aspects of the sentence in Arabic and English political speeches, namely sentence length, frequency of sentence types, and forms. It also aimed at determining the roles or functions of these features and the ideological goals they serve in the speeches. Twenty political speeches in Arabic and twenty political speeches in English were collected from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings between 2015 and 2019. The analysis revealed that the sentence in the Arabic political speeches is slightly shorter than its counterpart in English. It was also found that the complex sentence is more frequent in the Arabic speeches, while the simple sentence is more frequent in the English speeches. The analysis also revealed that these syntactic features were used to perform several functions in the text to serve ideological goals such as promoting ideas and maintaining political neutrality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]