Le parole e il gesto. Il discorso del Presidente Sādāt alla Knesset

The article deals with the study of President Sādāt’s speech at the Knesset, highlighting some strategies adopted to convince his audiences of the logic and necessity to initiate a peace process in the Middle East. We have chosen to assume some categories and methodological tools taken from the New Rhetoric and the Critical Discourse Analysis, aiming to describe the rhetorical techniques for building the audience’s interest, displaying the speaker’s image, and the language choices considered more appropriate to achieve the goals of persuasion.