The projection of credibility as a rhetorical strategy in Anwar el‐Sadat's address to the Israeli parliament

This article presents an analysis of the rhetorical strategies utilized by Anwar el‐Sadat, President of Egypt, in a speech delivered to the Israeli Parliament in November of 1977. Given political exigencies which dictated Sadat's rhetorical strategies, the projection of credibility — similarity, attractiveness, and trustworthiness — was Sadat's primary rhetorical goal.

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Mr. Ross is Instructor of Speech, Rock Valley College, Rock Valley, Illinois. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of James A. Benson, Ball State University, in the preparation of this manuscript.