Textuality and the Power of the Egyptian Political Speech: A Comparative Study in light of Analyzing Two Speeches Presented by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and President Mohammad Morsi

Text linguistics is concerned with larger units of speech. It is not restricted to the level of the traditional sentence. It investigates how larger units are constructed by employing specific linking devices. Text itself encompasses both written materials and spoken ones such as speeches, dialogues, and sermons. Textuality is what makes a text a unified whole rather than a mere string of unrelated words and sentences. So, what distinguishes a text from non-text is texture or textuality. A text derives its texture from the fact that it functions as a unity. The textual component creates text as opposed to non-text. A text is a communicative occurrence which meets seven standards of textuality. If a text fails to conform to any of these standards, it ceases to be communicative. The standards of textuality given by De Beaugrande and Dressler (1981) and developed by Mohammed Jasim Betti (2021) in a research paper entitled "Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics" and by Taqwa Rashid in a research paper entitled "Seven Standards of Textuality in Parents-Child Communication" have been chosen for the analysis. In this study, the researcher tries to differentiate between two Egyptian political speeches presented by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and President Mohammad Morsi through applying the seven standards of textuality to their translated texts. She handles these standards for showing the idea of unity within the chosen speeches or for revealing the relationship between text tie and the president's intention behind it. This paper aims to analyze a political speech for the purpose of identifying its cohesive elements as a text, showing the type of cohesion which is the most substantive contribution to texture and illustrating whether this type is effective or not.