What is it about?
This study, based on the proposed integrated approach, aims to critically exemplify and dissect three speeches delivered by Mr. Obama, to first manifest its practicality and feasibility through analysis; then by virtue of analysis to reveal how and why different types of strategies are distributed and, finally on the basis of chosen apparatus, to pinpoint their inter-related functionalities, effectiveness and frequency in the texts.
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Why is it important?
Drawing on overarching methodological frameworks of Hallidayan grammatical metaphor, Fairclough’s perspective on critical discourse analysis and rhetoric, this study attempts to posit a novel, integrated and practical approach to political, the media, advertisement and other discourses. To this end and based on the proposed approach, it aims to critically and eclectically exemplify and dissect three speeches delivered by Mr. Barack Obama, former president of the US, to first manifest the integrated approach practicality and adeptness through analysis; then by virtue of analysis to unveil how language is manipulated and distorted by orators in order to convey seamlessly intended messages and political creeds to the audience. Surveying recent annals of literature, to date no one has conducted an integrated study applying these disciplines in an individual paper and this study as a trial one can be useful for upcoming research. The analysis depicts practicality and efficiency of the integrated approach and displays that the speeches abound with nominalizations, modal verbs, parallelisms and antitheses. Furthermore, there are some three-part listing, the use of passivization, quotations and modality metaphors. Therefore, a tendency to utilize more nominalizations, parallelism and other devices by the speaker can be a fundamental reason for making his political language more powerful, impressive, persuasive and ambiguous as well.
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This approach accommodates a wealth of devices and apparatus for appraising how various tools in political speeches or other discourses are disposed tactically for particular reasons and addresses. Eventually, all these analyzed tropes reveal that politician’s speeches are not ad lib at all, and all grammatical and lexical constituents are politically and religiously charged by orators for a distinctive and certain reasons to seamlessly and evenly convey intended messages to the given audience and to gain power, control and their support as well.
Dr. Bahram Kazemian
Islamic Azad University Tabriz Branch
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This page is a summary of: A Radical Shift to a Profound and Rigorous Investigation in Political Discourse: An Integrated Approach, SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2927360.
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