Casting Mechanisms in Lady Aisha’s Sermon in Defense of Her Father: A Critical Rhetorical Study

This research deals with the manifestations of textual casting and its artistic mechanisms in the sermon of Lady Aisha - may God be pleased with her - in defense of her father, a study from a critical rhetorical perspective. It is not hidden the importance of textual casting in the cohesion of the text and the solidarity of its parts. If its presence in the rhetorical architecture weakens, the meaning weakens and the discourse disappears, and speech becomes closer to incomprehensibility and eloquence. Textual casting is the furthest that modern studies have reached in dealing with and analyzing the text. From this standpoint, the research dealt with the mechanisms of textual casting in its various branches; The phonetic, verbal, and semantic methods, following the descriptive approach based on monitoring and analysis. The nature of the research required that it come in an introduction and a preface, three chapters, then a conclusion and an index of the research sources, and another for the research topics. In the introduction, there is a discussion of the importance of the topic, the motives for choosing it, its methodology, and the method of presenting it. As for the preface, it contains: First: The term casting between modernity and heritage. Second: “The text of Lady Aisha’s sermon in defense of her father.” The first chapter came: The mechanisms of moral casting (semantic) and it includes: (the context of the sermon in the situation, the unity of the topic, and the introduction). The second chapter: The mechanisms of verbal casting, and it includes: (reference - conjunction - condition). The third chapter: The mechanisms of phonetic casting, and it includes “antithesis, parallelism, rhyme, paronomasia, and good ending.” The conclusion: It includes the most important results of the research, then an index of sources and references. It has reached a number of results, the most prominent of which are: The importance of trying to apply the achievements of Western linguistic studies to Arabic texts in keeping pace with For scientific development in all fields, including the linguistic field in particular.