A Positive Discourse Approach to the Arabic Facebook Posts of Two Egyptian Relationship Skills Coaches

Relationship skills coaching is a kind of psychotherapy that helps people to communicate in healthier way. It with personal problems and issues such as, for example: trust, lying, respect, anger-management, communication, conflict, power struggles, abuse, jealousy, romance, intimacy, parenting, in-laws, divorce, loneliness, stress, fear, anxiety, depression, so on. Currently, relationship becoming trendy profession Egypt many coaches are famous. Many these using their Facebook pages. This paper focuses mainly on selection the posts two coaches, namely, Howayda Aldemerdash Waleed Khairy. The study provides positive discourse analysis (PDA) (Martin, 1995, 2004, 2006) selected posts. PDA emphasises function construction motivating change into better world. theoretical basis Appraisal theory, which evaluative resources comprised three sub-systems: Attitude (people’s feelings evaluations), Engagement (the voices author texts) Graduation system different levels gradability evaluation). significant application Arabic sheds light nature Egypt. shows Khairy deals related love trust; whereas between couples marital problems. However, both employ sub-systems theory reach out followers construct themselves as authoritative, expert, engaged, emotional.
 
 Received: 19 November 2022 / Accepted: 15 February 2023 Published: 5 March