혁명의 언어: 아랍 민주화 혁명에 나타난 시위 구호의 언어 및 수사 분석

The Language of Revolution: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of the Protest Slogans used in the Arab Democratization Revolution with special emphasis on Tunisia and Egypt

In this paper, as a genre of political discourse, I have attempted to analyze the slogans used by the Egyptian public in the process of Arab democratization. Slogans are designed to be chanted, exclaimed or shouted by people in public, thus appealing to people’s sense of hearing. Posters are designed to be written, and hence appeal to people’s sense of vision. This paper explores both political slogans, placards and posters from the linguistic and rhetoric viewpoint. It analyzes their linguistic structure, formal pattern and the implicit presuppositions they contain. It argues that, from a formal point of view, slogans and posters represent the political demands and attitudes of the protesters.