TY - JOUR ID - 134482 TI - Exploring Rhetoric of Motives in Ali Smith’s Political Novel Autumn JO - Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies JA - EFL LA - en SN - AU - Shabrang, Hoda AU - Ebrahimi, Mahsa AD - Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, Department of English Language, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran. AD - M.A. Student in English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Ershad Damavand Institute, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 71 EP - 86 KW - Ali Smith KW - Brexit KW - Identification KW - Kenneth Burke KW - Rhetoric of Motives KW - Symbolism DO - 10.22034/efl.2021.275996.1087 N2 - In his political novel, Autumn, Ali Smith has implicitly integrated family life with political matrices of British-European relations. In this study, Autumn was investigated in light of Kenneth Burke's notions of identification, substance, symbolism, and imagination known as rhetoric of motives. Identification refers to identifying with characters having some components or substances in common. Rhetoric of motives refers to the application of terms with persuasive function that move people into action. The themes of Ali Smith's Autumn are in congruity with Kenneth Burke’s theoretical ideas represented as theme of love to explain illogical coupling of a young woman and an old man that recalls England and Europe/EU interconnection and mismatching relations. This study explored how the rhetoric and dialect of Smith that have symbolic meanings and functions is motivating through identification with characters. Burke believes that through rhetoric of motives and grammar of motives it is possible to create protagonists that people can easily identify with to persuade them into action based on their intended political views. Through rhetoric of motives by the seasonal novel via identification, symbolism, and imagination, Smith indirectly portrays the political event of Brexit (British Exit) and its consequences in British society. UR - https://efl.shbu.ac.ir/article_134482.html L1 - https://efl.shbu.ac.ir/article_134482_210baac0a5c21feb07bf0118f5cead3d.pdf ER -