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The research at hand is a corpus-based analysis of the relational aspects of the presidential discourse of Muḥammad Mursī; the first president of Egypt after the January 25 Revolution. The corpus includes six speeches given by Mursī dating: June 24th, 2012; June 29th 2012; July 19th, 2012; August 12th, 2012; January 27th, 2013; and July 2nd, 2013. The methodology adopted in this research is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) for the intimate relationship it has with political affairs. The analysis applies CDA to describe the relational features of Mursī's presidential discourse for the objective of answering the question of whether June-30 events in Egypt were a revolution or a military coup. The analysis shows that Mursī is an uncharismatic political leader and his discourse lacks credibility and teems with implied exclusion messages against women; Copts; and non-MB revolutionaries. As well, Mursī heavily uses polemic not only against the previous president and his men, but also against whomever opposes his regime. The research concludes that those relational downsides in Mursī's discourse had negative effects on large sectors of Egyptians and ended up in a mighty revolution, not a coup, against the Mursī-Muslim-Brotherhood rule. The research consists of two parts the first of which presents a theoretical background about the relation between language, politics and media, and the importance of analyzing the identity of a political leader as reflected in his rhetoric and body language. The theoretical background explains as well the effect of political discourse on public opinion and the relation between CDA and politics. The second part of the research analyzes the relational features of Mursī's presidential discourse. The analysis tackles four points: Mursī's charisma and how it affects his relation with the public, his use of rhetoric and how it compares to reality, language of inclusion in his speeches contrasted with his implied exclusion of women, Copts and non-MB revolutionaries and finally his use of polemic against enemies.
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