Discourse Analysis Obama

To be a part of a discourse community, one must be credible, possess factual knowledge and draw on the values of its members to be accepted into the community. At the same time, a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. They share a certain genre—type of writing. Members of discourse communities provide information and feedback that are imperative in order for that discourse community to grow. In the following paper, I will discuss three discourse communities and a genre that they typically use: people who read Nutritional Facts religiously, college students, and industrial organizational psychologists.

After explaining the metaphorical and cognitive basis of our daily interaction, Lakoff applied conceptual metaphor to the analysis of political motivating thoughts. In 1996 Lakoff introduced his book entitled moral politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, in which he introduced an influential metaphorical framework for realizing American political way of thinking. Lakoff makes benefit from the techniques of cognitive linguistics for a better understanding of the mental framework that underlie the contemporary American politics, Lakoff defines the mental concepts that make up a ‘Democrats’ and that of the ‘Republicans’. For Lakoff the ‘Democrats’ morals and political thoughts are superior to ‘Republican’ morals and policy.

Effective writing allows for both the participation and addition of knowledge in discourse communities. A discourse community is a group of people that develop and share a sense of identity primarily through the sharing and exchanging of information on a specific subject or field. The two main form of communication in discourse communities are through reading and writing. Through reading one becomes familiar and starts to understand a community, and writing is when one participates in it. Each discourse community develops its own unique technical language, often referred to as lexis. The lexis allows communication between the community to be precise and to the point [6].

In the year 2008 the world was a much different place. Before countless racial protests and riots in streets, before NFL players knelt during the National Anthem for what they believed in, and before our president spoke of nonsensical chauvinistic principles on a regular basis, our country appeared to have a greater sense of unification. This unifying bond between the American people was due in part by Barack Obama, whose entire campaign to become president may have been the most difficult struggle for anybody in the lineage of presidential candidates to go through. As part of his strategy to win over voters and soothe the skepticism of whites who may have had any doubting questions, Obama gave this speech on race; a speech which still

“On Political Labels” by Christopher Borick and “Four Words That Will Decide the Election” by David Green both deal with how language is used in politics. Borick’s essay is a more historical and informative of the origins of political language and key words, while Green’s essay is a game plan for the Democrats to defeat the Republicans by using their own rhetoric against them. David Green makes great points in his essay, but because of his left wing bias and his overall view of Republicans being almost idiots discredit his essay. This is because of the multiple schools of thought that aren’t taken into account for in his essay. Borick’s historical analysis of political terms gives the reader a greater understanding on the rebuttals the Democrats and Republicans can use, but his overall naïve tone on politics today makes his essay almost utopian or unrealistic. Since both essays were written before the 2012 election, they have some outdated views because of our current changing political climate. The current political climate has made the Democratic Party is leaning more European Socialist, while the Republican Party is being dominated by any reactionary movement that is prides itself on nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric.

Discourse Community Project A discourse community is a community that shares the same "discourses" or values or goals as their community. An example of this would be a sports team or organization. Players of these specific teams all work together to achieve a common goal; to win. These players have a coach that is a powerful leader and that individual makes them strive to be the best players they can be. Moreover, it is important for each player to have trust in each other and to form bonds.

January 20th is an important day to all Americans; this is the day of the inauguration speech. Every four years the new president will announce their speech on this day. George Bush presented his speech 16 years ago, Barack Obama presented his speech 8 years ago and this year Donald Trump presented his speech. Each speech is expressed in their own style showing how the president is. For instance, Barack Obama uses numerous rhetorical devices, logic with emotions to perform a reassuring positive speech. In contrast to Donald Trump who lacked rhetorical devices but uses emotions to create a powerful straightforward speech. Both speeches revealed similar ideas yet were illustrated in very different ways.

All great minds think alike, a common cliche we have all heard at some point or another, but is this true? Well yes, some minds do think alike and, when they organize, we may call them a discourse community. A discourse community is a specific collective that compares and converses. It is a thought-provoking group that promotes common ideas and benefits its members. Any true discourse community can be identified by six necessary characteristics, as described by Swales. First, “a discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.” Second, “a discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.” Third, “a discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback.” Fourth, “a discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.” Fifth, “a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis.” And finally, “a discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.”

The hypothesis of this essay will focus on the use of metaphors in speech by state leaders to mobilise public opinion. In this instance, how does the metaphor and imagery of the word ‘evil’, used by George W. Bush, mobilised the public opinion of the American people towards policies for the ‘War on Terror’. Also, this essay will argue that that using this term improved the domestic opinion of President Bush, at the expense of relations between USA and Iran. This is not a new phenomenon; it can be argued that the idea of using such emotive terminology to categorise states together is one that has existed prior to Bush Jr. This essay will elaborate and analyse examples of this. The hypothesis will

The speaker for tonight’s Muslims in America seminar brought a new aspect or way off thinking when it comes to how non-radical Muslims are dealing with radical Muslims. His delivery and provoking points, helped me better understand how people can convert to radical Muslim. Before attending the seminar I never considered the viewpoint or reasoning’s of terrorist. I found out most radicals are educated, literate and even intellectual. Militants believe in what is called “ooma”, which is translated as church or body. They believe strongly in “ooma” and that it represents an entire body. They view the world as a body with impairments and dysfunction. Tired of political grievance militants begin to feel love and sympathy towards their cause of curing

Imagine discovering the cure for cancer, and then tossing the revolutionary discovery into a blaze of fire. This obliteration has happened to rhetoric, a tool of language that donates life to argument and creates a thriving system of communication for the world. Rhetoric used to be an important aspect of education that could assist students with the teachings of argument and human interaction. Today, rhetoric has become a topic of minimal discussion among ideas that have long since been outdated, and considered archaic to the educational system. In reality, rhetoric exemplifies the human genius and must be taught in schools to further the evolution of human expression.

In this article Eve Fairbanks summarizes the effects that Newt Gingrich’s strategy to win the elections back in 1994 had on political culture. Gingrich sent Republican colleagues a list of words to use to describe their Democratic opponents: “sick,” “pathetic,” “bizarre,” “traitors” and “corrupt” were some of the choicest. After the election it was very clear that the game of winning elections in America was all dependent on word play. Fairbank’s findings suggest that the “frame” game in politics is actually shockingly simplistic. Turning conservatives to liberals doesn't depend on a rich mix of language, leaders, circumstances, and actual accomplishments. All it takes is hitting the right keywords to put the population in a happy mood about

As a newly elected senator, Barack Obama shares a speech with the people of the United States that John Kerry demonstrates the best possible choice for the nation’s next president. While he is giving his speech, he is able to connect with his audience when he uses rhetorical strategies, such as ethos and anaphora. By using these specific devices, he is able to build an argument revolving around the idea of Kerry becoming America’s next president.

Demagoguery attempts to simplify an argument so much so that it effectively shuts down any discussion. Through the use of rhetorical fallacies and other techniques, demagogues persuade the masses to support them. Although it can be successful, demagoguery is usually associated with a negative connotation because it plays on prejudices and emotions rather than rational. In Patricia Roberts Miller’s brief article, “Characteristics of Demagoguery,” she defines the various concepts of demagoguery, and using her article as a lens, both Wayne LaPierre’s transcript of his speech on Newtown Tragedy and Donald Trump’s presidential announcement contain different aspects of demagoguery like scapegoating, polarization,

The first research entitled “The representation of gender roles in the media - An analysis of gender discourse in Sex and the City movies ” was constructed by Therese Ottosson and Xin Cheng in 2012.