A Comparative Move Analysis of Religious Sermons by Influential Female and Male Islamic Scholars

Abstract

As complete professional texts, sermons could be analyzed based on Swales' framework of move analysis to reveal their conventional schematic structure. Thus, the current study aims at analyzing and comparing the rhetorical moves in English non-Friday sermons by female and male most influential Islamic scholars using Swales', Pho's, Hardjanto's, Biber's, and Wang's model of genre analysis. The research consists of a small corpus of four non-Friday sermons of