The Discourse of Persuasion

Some authors manage to persuade their readers to create obvious changes in their lives and attitudes while others do not. This raises the question of the persuasive techniques that competent authors use in order to do this. This work aims to highlight the linguistic features that play an effective role in persuasion by exploring the linguistic features that Dr. Wayne W. Dyer employed in one of the most popular self-help books, '10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace'. Discourse analysis has been used in order to analyze this text from syntactic, lexical, and pragmatic perspectives.

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The author graduated from the English Department of Ain Shams University in Cairo. She received her MA degree in Linguistics in 2010. She has taught in a number of universities across Cairo. She is currently an Assistant Lecturer in the British University in Egypt. Her main fields of interest are Linguistics, Education and Educational Technologies.