Linguistic Concept
Table of content
Table of contents
1. Introduction 3
1.1 Aim 3
1.2 Methodology and data 3
2. Date analysis 2
2.1 Metaphor 2
2.2 Parallelism 3
Reference 4
Appendices 5
1. Introduction
The State of the Union is the message which the President of the United State give to the Congress annually. The address is usually given in every January and used to outline the President’s legislative proposals for the upcoming years. According to the United Stated Constitution "The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." (Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution). As a result, The President’s ambition is to increase political support, to encourage mutual understanding. In order to do that, they often use the rhetoric strategies to convince the Congressmen.
The use of metaphor is to help the listener visualize what it means by phrase and expression and the use of parallel is help the listener easily recognize the particular part of messages. These are two rhetoric devices which George H W. Bush used in his State of Union 2008 to persuade that his thoughts, aims are equitable and to make his points clear and vivid to the Congressmen.
1.1 Aim
The aim of the essay is to analyze and elucidate the use of metaphor and three-part statement which George W Bush used in his State of the Union 2008. For what purpose are these two rhetoric devices use and what do they suggest to the audience?
1.2 Methodology and data
The material analyzed in this essay is the State of the Union 2008 delivered by George H W. Bush on 28th January 2008 which I found on the webpage of the White House ….
In this essay, the two main devices in the address will be analyzed: metaphor and parallelism in order to show what the President means to persuade his
Table of contents
1. Introduction 3
1.1 Aim 3
1.2 Methodology and data 3
2. Date analysis 2
2.1 Metaphor 2
2.2 Parallelism 3
Reference 4
Appendices 5
1. Introduction
The State of the Union is the message which the President of the United State give to the Congress annually. The address is usually given in every January and used to outline the President’s legislative proposals for the upcoming years. According to the United Stated Constitution "The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." (Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution). As a result, The President’s ambition is to increase political support, to encourage mutual understanding. In order to do that, they often use the rhetoric strategies to convince the Congressmen.
The use of metaphor is to help the listener visualize what it means by phrase and expression and the use of parallel is help the listener easily recognize the particular part of messages. These are two rhetoric devices which George H W. Bush used in his State of Union 2008 to persuade that his thoughts, aims are equitable and to make his points clear and vivid to the Congressmen.
1.1 Aim
The aim of the essay is to analyze and elucidate the use of metaphor and three-part statement which George W Bush used in his State of the Union 2008. For what purpose are these two rhetoric devices use and what do they suggest to the audience?
1.2 Methodology and data
The material analyzed in this essay is the State of the Union 2008 delivered by George H W. Bush on 28th January 2008 which I found on the webpage of the White House ….
In this essay, the two main devices in the address will be analyzed: metaphor and parallelism in order to show what the President means to persuade his