Critical Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Political Discourse Juraj Horváth Abstract This paper examines the persuasive strategies of President Obama’s public speaking as well as the covert ideology of the same‚ enshrined in his inaugural address. Our analysis is grounded in Norman Fairclough’s assumptions in critical discourse analysis‚ claiming that "ideologies reside in texts" that "it is not possible to ’read off’ ideologies from texts" and that "texts are open to diverse interpretations"
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English 1101 Rhetorical Analysis President Obama’s acceptance speech aims to convince his audience by talking about the major issues in America at the time‚ like the economy‚ war‚ gas prices‚ and jobs. Obama starts his speech thanking his family and the Clinton family. He begins by talking about himself as a third person‚ he approaches his audience by telling the Democrats‚ Republican and Independents to keep the American promise alive‚ he states that the American promise is everything we dreams
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Cougar Madness “Palms sweaty‚ knees weak‚ arms are heavy.” Eminem’s 8 Mile pumped through my headphone like a syringe into my veins. Sweat beaded on my forehead and my muscles ached with fatigue as the 2012 Clark Cougar Basketball tryouts were coming to a close. The coach began to take his place in the front of the group‚ so I removed my headphones in preparation for his speech. He began to speak about how great this year’s turnout was. The suspense was brutal and time crawled as he went on. His
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Rhetorical Analysis Essay President Obama’s 2009 Inaugural Address In January of 2009 President Barack Obama addressed his country for the first time as president of the United States of America. Not only did he address his nation but he left them with a sense of empowerment. With the use of rhetoric‚ Obama and his speech writers were able to greatly influence their audience. In the speech as a whole‚ Obama used anaphora with the word “our”. This was not only a good move from a political
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Betanco‚ Nelida Professor Cecil English 106 February 13‚ 2013 A Discourse Analysis Throughout the world each individual is a member of a certain Discourse community. A Discourse community is a place where people share the same mechanisms of inter-communication among its members‚ as well as utilizing and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims. Each individual pertains to a certain community whether they acknowledge it or not. However‚ the first community
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Chapter 9 Thinking and Intelligence Elements of cognition Concept Mental category that groups objects‚ relations‚ activities‚ abstractions‚ or qualities having common properties Basic concepts have a moderate number of instances and are easier to acquire. Prototype is an especially representative example. Proposition A meaningful unit‚ built of concepts‚ expressing a single idea Schema An integrated mental network of knowledge‚ beliefs‚ and expectations concerning a particular topic
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The Journey of A Successful Soccer Player In order to be accepted into a discourse community‚ a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. In this paper I will prove that I entered the discourse community of my high school soccer team by acquiring knowledge‚ establishing my credibility‚ and learning the game I love. In other words‚ I will be using the ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos appeals. I love to play soccer and watch the professionals who play on TV. I have played
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Maria Nina D. Dollentes BSAct 2-1 I. Introduction Good Morning everyone! I’m here today to talk to you about an extremely serious issue that society faces today‚ racism. Racism is the discrimination of a person because of the race that they have inherited. There are many different types of racism‚ like racial discrimination‚ ethnic jokes‚ racial assumptions‚ and harassment‚ but they all got a couple of things in common. All kinds of racism are despicable and create a negative and sometimes dangerous
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(*) Acting Capacity # | Name | Term Began | Term Ended | President | 1 | Jose Antonio Gonzales | March 1986 | June 30‚ 1987 | Corazon Aquino | 2 | Rafael Alunan III | July 1‚ 1987 | June 30‚ 1989 | | 3 | Narzalina Z. Lim | July 1‚ 1989 | June 30‚ 1992 | | 4 | Vicente Carlos | July 1‚ 1992 | 1996 | Fidel Ramos | * | Evelyn B. Pantig | 1996 | 1996 | | 5 | Guillermina T. Gabor | May 19‚ 1996 | June 30‚ 1998 | | 6 | Gemma Cruz-Araneta | June 30‚ 1998 | January 20‚ 2001 | Joseph Estrada
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The Field of Foucaultian Discourse Analysis: Structures‚ Developments and Perspectives Rainer Diaz-Bone‚ Andrea D. Bührmann‚ Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez‚ Werner Schneider‚ Gavin Kendall & Francisco Tirado Abstract: The article outlines the field of FOUCAULTian discourse analysis. The FOUCAULTian concept of discourse is introduced‚ and methodological positions and methodological developments are sketched. Compared to other qualitative social research approaches‚ the different researchers and
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