4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187 Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama ’s 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—In the light of Halliday ’s Ideational Grammatical Metaphor‚ Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis‚ the major objectives of this study
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Topic Choice: The topic choice ‘I have a dream’ was chosen after a lot of soul searching. It reveals the speaker’s previous experiences growing up and living in a segregated society. He only dreamt of being treated as an equal citizen‚ not based on the colour of his skin and ethnic background. This topic was directed at millions of African Americans suffering from extreme poverty as a result of being denied opportunities in their own country. The topic resonated with everyone in the crowd on that
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Analysis of dialogues in Oliver Twist Book Review 北京大学 光华管理学院 00928015 翟静媛 联系方式:134-3987-9195 2010-12-25 Analysis of dialogues in Oliver Twist 00928015 翟静媛 Book review: Analysis of the dialogues in Oliver twist Summary: As the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era‚ Charles Dickens has his own composing features‚ one of which is to utilize distinctive language as a salient method to form different characters. He forms very new and striking expressions out of rather special
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The first aspect that been discussed by Irina Rudyk in “Power Relations in President Bush’s State of the Union speech based on Critical Discourse Analysis is meaning. From this context‚ Rudyk analyse the choices of vocabulary employed by the speaker which is President Bush. Besides‚ meaning is also the presupposition on how the listener or the reader interprete the speaker’s speech based on their ideology on a particular matter such as in Bush’s speech‚ he talked about the enemy and the peacefulness
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research paper explores cohesion in media discourse. The analysis tackles lexical cohesion in native and non-native articles in order to investigate the distinction between them. Lexical cohesion is the role played by the selection of vocabulary in order to link and hold text together. Lexical cohesion is categorized into two major sections: reiteration and collocation. Reiteration includes‚ for instance‚ repetition‚ hyponyms‚ synonyms‚ and antonyms. The analysis is applied to a non-native article written
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in Obama’s speech of inauguration based on “Analyzing Political Discourses” Theory and Practice by Paul Chilton Number of Words: 2589 Introduction: Political discourses are made to impress‚ persuade and to underline ideas to change a country. Politicians use specialized writers to write for them their discourses or use a lot of time to write one‚ as political discourses are important for the future outcome. For example: To be voted by
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CDA: A plea for diversity. In R. Wodak‚ & M. Meyer (Eds.)‚ Methods of critical discourse analysis. (pp. 95-121). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Reviewed by Ola El-Wassify Helwan University Cairo‚ Egypt Ola.el-wassify@hotmail.com Van Dijk‚ in this article‚ aims at creating principles and workable instructions for doing critical discourse analysis (CDA). He is focusing on the socio-cognitive interface of discourse analysis. Also he is stating that CDA is flexible with approaches depending on what the
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George F. Cabrera October 6‚ 2013 The Prince and The Discourses and it’s similarities. Reading the books of Machiavelli’s: The Prince and The Discourses I noticed there are many similarities to one another. Machiavelli explains the concept of an ideal ruler that he thinks would be able to govern with great power and adversity from his observation of previous rulers. The Prince is a book written about Tyrants while The Discourses is a book written by lovers of liberty (The Prince‚ Introduction-
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which illustrates this distinction and the discussion of this essay attempts to explore the use of language within this variety of spoken communication – through the evident use of lexical‚ syntactic and phonological features and furthermore in discourse structure. This exploration can be achieved in reference to presenter Leighton Smith’s radio interview of Prime Minister John Key‚ which featured May 16th on the Newstalk ZB radio channel. Background The language of radio presenters is a form
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Communication 317m - #1398 Dr. G. E. Forsberg Lesson Two Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death chronicles the rise of television culture in America‚ from colonial times to the modern day; though of course‚ there were no televisions around in colonial America. This is precisely Postman’s focus--the way that America was as a culture first in the age where print media reigned supreme‚ and how the
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