Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.1.3.254-261 A Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama‟s Speeches Junling Wang School of Foreign Languages‚ Northwest Normal University‚ Lanzhou‚ China Email: wangjl36@163.com Abstract—The Critical Discourse Analysis is often applied to analyze political discourse including the public speech‚ in which the speaker wins favorite response from the audience. This paper‚ based on Critical Discourse Analysis theory and Systematic Functional Linguistics‚ analyzes
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AELS 348 – CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS KIRSTIN CONRADIE 16107306 TASK 3 1. Social practice: Raising children 2. In contemporary society the discourse regarding the raising of children is primarily focused on developmental appropriateness‚ meaning that there exists a general awareness of the developmental sensitivity of children (childhood being a developmentally sensitive period). Contrasting this with the sentiment of “children must be seen and not heard” of a few decades ago‚ it becomes
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work in “Oroonoko” and‚ among those to peruse such is Daniel Pigg. In his article‚ “Trying to Frame the Unframable: Oroonoko as Discourse in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko”‚ Pigg brings to the fore the multi-faceted nature of the main character in Behn’s work Oroonoko which for him‚ makes it impossible to ‘frame” him or represent him in a set way. Pigg’s
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passion‚ motorcycle riding. While members get to meet fellow enthusiasts‚ Harley gets to keep their attention on Harley. As it cannot compete with Japanese imports on price‚ and perhaps quality‚ Harley has to focus on its brand. HOG builds brand community and dispels the old image of Harley owners as Hell’s Angels gangs. In fact‚ Harley has been so successful in building its brand that BusinessWeek ranks it as the 44th most valuable in the world. Retaining Harley owners is clearly lucrative; Harley
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Sociocultural rules * Understanding social context 4 Verbal/nonverbal strategies to compensate for breakdowns due to performance variables or insufficient competence * Ability of connecting sentences * Intersentential Relationships Discourse Competence Bachman (1990) REMEMBER Locutionaryact: Performance of an utterance “It’s cold in here.” Illocutionary act: Intended meaning [The windows is open. So I should close it.] Perlocutionary act: Consequences of the utterance (whether
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2008 by Phaisit Boriboon All rights reserved. To My Parents‚ ปอบุญมา แมคําปน บริบูรณ‚ in Heaven Abstract This study presents a multi-faceted analysis of EFL learners’ voices in a Thai context‚ aimed at testing a hypothesis that the discourse of foreign‚ western-compiled textbooks project identities disconnected from EFL learners’ lived experiences‚ adversely affecting their meaning-making during discursive practices. I employ a multi-modal‚ multi-case study for data collection: 1) the
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exactly how I treated those subjects‚ with the utmost disobedience. Being born into a Discourse‚ as John Paul Gee puts‚ “…involve a set of values and viewpoints in terms of which one must speak and act” (Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚ 538). Being born into an Asian-American household‚ I was pressured heavily to achieve academic success. However‚ I didn’t care much to squeeze myself into this supposed Discourse of a perfect Asian. Nobody seemed to offer me a solid reason why I should apply myself
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for the requirements of a PhD course in Discourse Analysis by Ahmed Sahib Jabir May‚ 2013 1. Introductory remarks It is an agreed upon fact that language is mainly used to fulfil two basic functions: the first is the transactional function which is related to the communication of information and the other is the interactional function which is concerned with establishing and maintaining social relations between the members of a speech community (Brown and Yule 1983: 1). This latter function
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competence 3. strategic competence 4. discourse competence 1. Grammatical competence Knowledge that is responsible for producing a structurally comprehensible utterance (related to formal aspects of language) Including grammar‚ vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ spelling‚ morphology‚ syntax and semantics Comparable with Chomsky’s linguistic competence 2. Sociolinguistic competence Knowledge that enables us to use the sociocultural rules of language use and (discourse) Using socially-determined cultural
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A COMMUNITY MODEL—Roland L. Warren Warren‚ R (1975). In K. Kramer and H. Specht (eds.)‚ Readings in community organization practice. 2nd. Ed. Englwood Cliffs‚ N.J.: Prentice-Hall It is the inescapable fact that people’s clustering together in space has important influences on their daily activities which give us perhaps our best clue to a definition of the community as a social entity. We shall consider a community to be that combination of social units and systems which perform the major
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