Critical Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Political Discourse Juraj Horváth Abstract This paper examines the persuasive strategies of President Obama’s public speaking as well as the covert ideology of the same‚ enshrined in his inaugural address. Our analysis is grounded in Norman Fairclough’s assumptions in critical discourse analysis‚ claiming that "ideologies reside in texts" that "it is not possible to ’read off’ ideologies from texts" and that "texts are open to diverse interpretations"
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Patient-therapist interaction The way the therapist and patient interact with each other in a medical setting greatly influence on the therapeutic relationship (Greenhalgh and Heath 2010). According to Crepeau and Garren (2011) to develop a strong therapeutic relationship‚ the therapist must be able to interact in a way that allows them to enter into the patient’s experience‚ connect with the emotional feelings and to be willing to modify their own perspective in order to respond to the patient’s
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Obviously the dominant discourse held by slaves was against slavery. Chapel‚ a young slave was consumed by the idea of “freedom’ his yearning of “paradise”. This idea brought about by Lydia‚ his teacher and forbidden lover. Chapel wished to run away with his “star crossed lover”
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how it fit with Swales characteristics of a discourse community. Its function was to inform each member about what’s going on and what’s happening with the team with our plans. I feel that I have a very little understanding of the research goal. For one appropriately integrate what I have from my sources I don’t feel I can say that I did. There wasn’t much learning rather than just doing what is asked seeing what the six ways Swales define a discourse community trying to hit every point with some
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The Origin of Inequality Inequality amongst human beings in society is recognized as one of the greatest injustices we face in the world‚ and every person either benefits from this inequality or is harmed from it. In his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality‚ Jean- Jacques Rousseau discusses the origin of social inequality in humans. Rousseau uses his own theories on the natural and social state of man to express the reason for inequality in mankind. Even though Rousseau’s argument on the reason
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traditional gender discourse? Written by Australian playwright Jack Davis in 1985‚ the protest play No Sugar follows the journey of a Nyoongah family‚ the Millimurras‚ and the hardships and struggles they face during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was during that period where both European and Aboriginal women were very much marginalized by society and still played the traditional role of mother‚ wife and nurturer. Jack Davis reinforces certain aspects of traditional gender discourse in No Sugar
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imply a character’s emotional response to story events. The study focuses on narratorial discourse and distinguishes between verbalized speech and thought (free indirect discourse) and non-verbalised thought-processes (psycho-narration). The analysis is carried out by studying the deictic centre or the perspective in the short stories. The study shows that passages of psycho-narration and free indirect discourse are rich in emotional language‚ including such features as interjections‚ repetition and
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Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (IV) None of the proposed philosophical theories is exact‚ not even a combination of two or more theories (Sayre‚ 2011). However‚ Descartes has unique way of metaphysical argument concerning existence of God. Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (Part IV) ends surprisingly with a claim of God’s existence‚ which can be deduced from the interrelationship between mind‚ soul and our existence. Descartes began the fourth section by discussing about himself. The reading
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Phonology ………………………………………………......4 2.2. Phoneme and Allophone…..…………………………………………….….5 2.3. Voiceless Plosive Consonants …………………………………....………..7 2.4. Aspiration and Degrees of Aspiration ……………………………….…….9 2.5. Spoken Discourse…………….…………………………………………….12 2. Research Results and Discussions……………………………………………....15 3.6. Research Method…………………………………………………………..15 3.7. Analysis Material…………………………………………………………..16 3.8. Process…………………………………………………………………….
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a means to altering reality. It is through the use of discourse that one is capable of changing reality through thought and action. Bitzer then elaborates upon the nature of a rhetorical situation by explaining that rhetorical discourse enters a situation when: providing a response to its state of affairs; rhetorical discourse is given significant presence by the situation; the situation exists as a necessary condition for rhetorical discourse to have effect; a rhetorical situation or event may mature
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