Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted The Rhetorical Veil of Digital Anonymity(The University of Memphis, 2025-05) Albalawi, Dalal; Katherine, FredlundTechnology has changed dramatically in the 21st century. Perhaps one of the most noticeable technological shifts has been the rise of online social networking. These digital sites have opened space for voices that were long silenced, empowering them to create counterpublics that challenge dominant ideologies and build supportive communities of resistance. Feminist rhetoric tends to acknowledge these digital sites as vital battlegrounds in the fight against gender inequality. In particular, X, with features like hashtags and anonymity, has become a rhetorical space where women carry forward their feminist activism. In the Saudi Arabian context, this non-gendered digital space often offers women an opportunity to push back against and even redefine the boundaries imposed by cultural norms. At the same time, studies have shown that anonymity plays a key role in Saudi women's digital communication as it allows them to avoid social repercussions. Despite this, there is still a noticeable gap in the research regarding how Saudi women engage rhetorically in these online spaces. As a result, this dissertation responds to that gap and aligns with feminist rhetoric’s ongoing call to expand rhetorical frontiers by exploring the rhetorical practices of Saudi women. These practices are, more often than not, overlooked in both traditional Arabic rhetoric and feminist rhetorical studies. Using Feminist Poststructuralist Thematic Analysis, this dissertation unveils the rhetorical strategies Saudi women are employing in their feminist digital activism on X. It also looks at how anonymity acts as an Alternative Delivery System (ADS) that captures the specific cultural context of Saudi society.48 0Item Restricted Public Language and the Construction of Meaning: A Poetics of Recent American Presidential Inauguration Speeches(Victoria University, 2024-12-17) Fath Addin, Mohammed; Clark, Tom and Lucas, RoseThis thesis investigates how public language constructs and communicates meaning by focusing on the 21st-century American presidential inauguration speeches of Presidents George Walker Bush, Barack Hussein Obama, Donald John Trump, and Joseph Robinette Biden. This research examines the poetic and rhetorical devices, patterns of repetition and variation, and the evolution of the inauguration speech as a genre through a case study approach using close poetic readings informed by the analysis of poetry. This research is significant because it contributes to understanding meaning construction in public language, the evolution of the inauguration speech genre, and the significant power of poetry and poetics in enhancing message delivery in what might be described as non-poetic language. Employing the Inaugural Speech Genre Theory developed by Campbell and Jamieson, this study sheds light on the intricate interplay between language, power, and meaning in the context of presidential inaugurations. It draws upon previous studies on political rhetoric, public discourse, and speech genre analysis and provides new perspectives and methodologies, offering valuable insights into the construction and communication of meaning in public language. By examining the poetic elements, rhetorical strategies, and patterns of repetition and variation in the selected speeches, this research enriches the field of presidential inaugurations and contributes to the broader literature on political rhetoric and public discourse. This study provides a framework for analysing the aesthetic and persuasive dimensions of public language, opening avenues for further research in the analysis of meaning construction in diverse communicative contexts.19 0