A critical discourse analysis of President Obama First Inaugural Speech 2008 A. Introduction Language plays a prominent role in putting politic ideas into practice. At times‚ a struggle for power takes place by using language to carry out political actions. This paper is a critical discourse analysis one‚ analyzing a political discouse by President Barack Obama: the first inaugural address which conveys policies of the newly inaugurated president with effective persuasive strategies of
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Ho Chi Minh City Open University Faculty of Postgraduate Studies 97 Vo Van Tan‚ Dist.3‚ HCMC‚ Vietnam ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET AND REPORT Diploma in TESOL 11 Name of candidate: TRAN THI MY Student No: DIP11A - 018 Email address: my_tran313@yahoo.com Name of coursework subject: ACADEMIC WRITING Title of this assignment: Research Paper: How to improve high school
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Malik & Iqbal‚ Construction of Taliban Image in Pakistan Construction of Taliban Image in Pakistan: Discourse Analysis of Editorials of Dawn and The News Shaista Malik‚ Journalists for Democracy and Human Rights Zafar Iqbal‚ International Islamic University Abstract: The aim of this research study is to investigate as to how the image of Taliban is being constructed in the print media discourses. In the last couple of years‚ media in Pakistan widely covered the involvement of Taliban‚ fanning
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The notion that media content reflects changing dominant discourses with regards to masculinity and femininity appears to be an on going debate‚ although traditional representations of men and women are still very much evident in media content‚ for example domesticity‚ motherhood and women’s role in the home‚ it is notable that due to shifts in a cultured society‚ one that claims to be of fairness and equality‚ that there are still repetitious marginalisation’s which currently proliferate within
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On August 28‚ 1963 all eyes were on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he took the stage and spoke before a crowd gathered just outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.. Nearly 250‚000 people came to hear the great civil rights icon deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. Dr. King’s words were nothing short of awe-inspiring when he stood before those gathered to march for freedom and justice as a beacon of hope. A prominent figure in the civil rights
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Are commercial current affairs programs ‘dumbing down’ public discourse in Australia? Written by Callum Boaden ‘ Television is the most widely used mass media form in Australia and in the world’ (Flew & Harrington 2010‚ p. 155). Introduction There has been much speculation about the increasing diminishment of television news audiences and the rising prevalence of Internet news consumers. Despite the claims that the Internet will one day overthrow the dominance of television‚ presently
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and written language development will be reviewed. The second theme investigated is subsidiary but no less important‚ the need for teachers to understand better some of the discourses surrounding the English language and English language teaching. The necessity‚ for example‚ to know about‚ understand variable social discourses which underlie keywords such as proper‚ correct‚ standard‚ national‚ grammar‚ drill and‚ most prominently‚ the keyword English itself. These two themes conveniently come along
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role of metaphor in legal discourse and the legal process. However‚ research on the role of metaphor in legal discourse carried out by linguists is scant. It is the aim of this thesis to look into the heuristic and constitutive role of legal metaphor from a hybrid perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and cognitive approaches including Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and Blending Theory (BT). iii While Charteris-Black (2004) proposes a pragmatic discourse model to metaphor analysis
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Philosophy 1301 Professor Danny Brown June 15‚ 2013 Elizabeth and Descartes’s Conversation In his book “Discourse on Method and Mediations on First Philosophy”‚ Descartes mentioned the composition of the body and mind. When Princess Elizabeth read his book‚ she had many questions to give to Descartes‚ especially about the mind-body interaction. She said in her letter wrote to Descartes “how the soul can determine the spirits of the body to produce voluntary actions.” (Elizabeth‚ 11) They wrote
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Colonial Discourse Aside: Why Orientalism Was a Purely Intellectual Enterprise (word count: 1994) Orientalism as an academic discipline is oftentimes given a place of primacy in colonial discourse. Colonial politicians invoked it as a justification for colonial conquests. Administrative officers looked to it to accommodate their governance to the natives’ traditions and laws. Orientalism had been unavoidably political. And yet‚ this characterization had little explanatory power: it punctuates
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