The Insinuating Strategy in the Academic Blog

(Dr. Abdul Hadi Al-Fadhli as a Model)

Abstract

    This research is concerned with rhetorical strategies in their general approach, and chooses from them the strategy of allusion in its specific dimension of the academic blog, as one of the most important types of communicative strategies that the speaker seeks in order to achieve his communicative and interactive goals, and his functional purposes, from directing his speech to the recipient, and the research relied on a common prose material, then it was extrapolated from a communicative aspect, and to achieve this endeavor, the research starts from the concept of the strategy of allusion and its conditions, and then moves to the justifications for this strategy, after which it monitors its statements in the Arab and Western world, and finally stops at its means and mechanisms, analyzing the academic speeches of Dr. Abdul Hadi Al-Fadhli according to these means and mechanisms, and the research concluded that the speaker seeks to employ a number of linguistic tools and mechanisms to allude to his intention, to be a bridge to link his purposes, in order to produce an effective and productive allusive speech, which would Pointing to his hidden intention behind the appearance of his speech, so that these means may help him achieve the goals he set and the aims he sought to achieve.