everybody. God bless you. Thank you." These were the words of Barack Obama after he finished his speech having won the presidential election. Although his speech was long, he continually circled back to tell his audience, America, that he was extremely grateful to them for entrusting him with the future of our nation. In 2004, Obama became a well known Democrat after he produced this speech. He was the Illinois senator at the time, but after the speech was created and delivered, everyone knew that he would
skills in his rhetorical analysis of Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. He analyzes Obama’s speech in its ability to captivate the audience, and its ability to persuade the listeners into believing in his his candidate, John Kerry. Tyler describes the audience in a way that shows they are listening intently to Obama’s speech, and they are believing and trusting what he says. During his analysis, Tyler describes two of the three rhetorical elements in Obama’s speech, and how
Introduction This article focusses on a critical discourse analysis of the first inaugural address by Abraham Lincoln and the first inaugural address by Barack Obama on properties of discursive manipulation; including lexical, macro details, and grammatical elements. The rhetorical styles used by both presidents in their Addresses unquestionably influenced their degrees of success in achieving their political goals. Additionally political discourse is especially interesting to look at for this
President Barack Obamas’s Inauguration Speech There is little doubt that rhetoric is used by individuals of the political world and anyone linked to politics every where in the World. In our history, most presidents have used rhetoric to make their case and to address important issues when speaking to the nation. During president Obama’s journey that brought him to the White House, his speeches have contained many types of rhetoric and rhetorical devices. Throughout his inaugural speech, we can find
In “Address to the Nation”, a speech released by President Barack Obama on December 6th of 2015, Obama discusses the ubiquitous issue of terrorism, specifically referring to ISIL. An analysis of the first section of this speech uncovered the anomaly of a tragedy depicting 14 American soldiers who were killed in the hands of a terror organization formally known as ISIL. As the president advances in his national address, he elucidates all aspects of terrorism in this tragedy, but also details pertaining