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 he uses
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
aims of this study is to investigate the political speech of the president of the United States, Barack Obama remarked by the president in the state of the union address on January 27,2010 at the white house, office of the press secretary. The particular speech is obtainable at HTTP: //www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-state-union-address. The aims of this study is shows the speech acts of promise using by the president in his speech, showing the rules he has used to achieve his aim
Introduction 2,389 years ago, Greek philosopher Plato composed his most famous dialogue, called The Republic. It is divided into ten books, with the first and last forming a sort of introduction and conclusion, and the other nine making up the body of the political, social, and philosophical commentary (Blackburn 22). As in most of Plato’s works, the leading character in Socrates, the classical Greek philosopher who is thought to have died some 25 years before the writing of The Republic by with
attribution to online platforms. Notably, the networked digital connectivity in the recent years has enhanced politician’s ability to grasp the public’s attention and time in many ways (Wolfsfeld, Segev & Sheafer, 2013). For instance, President Barack Obama Campaigns in the year 2008 were significantly achieved given the fact that the social media played a greater role. The same was also witnessed in the Arab springs of the year 2011 where the world