ǂan ǂanalysis of Barack Obama's speech on race
Katja Plemenitaš (Author)

Abstract

The article deals with the language of American political discourse. It presents an analysis of the speech about race that Barack Obama gave during his campaign to become the Democratic presidential nominee as a reaction to the statements made by his former friend and pastor, Reverend Wright. The analysis is based on the functional model of language and it attempts to explain what makes Obama's political rhetoric in this speech persuasive. The analysis shows that the main message of Obamaćs race speech is that of unification. Based on that message, the speech can be classified as a tone-setting speech and as such resembles speeches from the tradition of American presidential rhetoric, even before Obama was elected president of USA.

Keywords

jezikoslovje;angleščina;govori;analize govora;politični govori;linguistics;speeches;linguistic analyses;

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Language: English
Year of publishing:
Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UM FF - Faculty of Arts
UDC: 811.111'27
COBISS: 17373448 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 1855-3605
Views: 2165
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Secondary language: Unknown
Secondary keywords: linguistics;speeches;linguistic analyses;
URN: URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS): Article
Pages: Str. 64-70
Volume: ǂVol. ǂ1
Issue: ǂno. ǂ1
Chronology: 2008
Keywords (UDC): language;linguistics;literature;jezikoslovje;filologija;književnost;linguistics and languages;jezikoslovje in jeziki;languages;jeziki;germanic languages;germanski jeziki;english language;angleščina;
ID: 1440024
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