A study of the rhetorical strategy used by Shabir Ally and Nabeel Qureshi in interfaith debates

Ilmi, Mubrizatul and Degaf, Agwin (2020) A study of the rhetorical strategy used by Shabir Ally and Nabeel Qureshi in interfaith debates. Nuansa, 17 (1). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1907-7211

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Abstract

Religion blasphemy often occurs in Indonesia. It is not because of physical violence or disturbing terror occurred, but it causes the use of discourse which is not appropriate. In this study, the interfaith debate is the object of research because the researchers are interested in knowing what strategies are used by speakers to explain their religious doctrine. The purpose of this study is to find out how the speaker uses the strategy to support their arguments. Data and data source in this study is the utterances of the two debate candidates in the presentation and refutation sessions, those are Dr. Qureshi and Dr. Ally. The data is collected by watching the debate live-streaming video, transcribing, selecting the appropriate data, and grouping them according to their respective categories. The result of the study after analyzing and discussing the data is the rhetorical strategies offered by Van Dijk used by the speakers in the presentation session is all the categories, while in the refutation session, the categories used are evidentiality, example/illustration, norm expression, number game, reasonableness, and religion self-glorification. Both speakers used the same method in applying the strategy in both sessions. However, the most dominant strategy used is the evidentiality category.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	rhetorical strategy; interfaith debate; tawhid; trinity
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities > Department of English Language and Letters
Depositing User:	Dr. Agwin Degaf
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2020 09:19

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