A Comparative Move Analysis of Religious Sermons by Influential Female and Male Islamic Scholars

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_92How to use a DOI?

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Genre analysis; Islamic scholars; Non-friday sermons

ABSTRACT

As complete professional texts, sermons could be analyzed based on Swales’ framework of move analysis to reveal their conventional schematic structure. Thus, the current study aims at analyzing and comparing the rhetorical moves in English non-Friday sermons by female and male most influential Islamic scholars using Swales’, Pho’s, Hardjanto’s, Biber’s, and Wang’s model of genre analysis. The research consists of a small corpus of four non-Friday sermons of Yasmin Mogahed, Dalia Mogahed, Mufti Ismail Menk, and Shaykh Omar Suleiman. The result depicts that female and male Islamic scholars have similarities and differences in organizing the rhetorical moves for their non-Friday sermons. The similarities could be observed in the terms of implementing three obligatory moves and three obligatory steps. The differences are found in the terms of step occurrence in which the scholars employ relatively different six prototypical steps and twenty-five optional steps. Moreover, the female and male scholars have different step schematic orders in their openings and closings. Although there is no significant difference in the sermons by female and male influential Islamic scholars due to the limited corpus, this initial study is expected to create a new model for more comprehensive research to include a larger corpus with a genre-based approach and mixed-method applied to non-Friday sermons and to provide a better understanding and writing English sermon texts.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tri Rina Budiwati
AU  - Amir Ma’ruf
AU  - Tofan Dwi Hardjanto
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - A Comparative Move Analysis of Religious Sermons by Influential Female and Male Islamic Scholars
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 594
EP  - 603
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_92
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_92
ID  - Budiwati2022
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