Analysing Political Speeches
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Analysing Political Speeches

Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor

  1. 298 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Analysing Political Speeches

Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor

About this book

Exploring speeches by public figures such as Emma Watson, Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Julia Gillard and Lady Gaga, this engaging textbook explains the ways in which political speeches can be analysed. It examines the role of language in speeches and how it can be used to challenge or reinforce prevailing social, cultural and political attitudes. Each chapter introduces a particular discourse approach and then applies this in a model analysis of a passage of text. The chosen texts concern issues of social, cultural and political importance that address topics of significant importance to the audience to which they were delivered. Students are encouraged to engage with the text and consider how approaches to text analysis, such as cohesion, context analysis and metaphor analysis, may be adapted to provide a more critical perspective. This text will be essential reading for students of English language, linguistics, communication studies and politics on critical discourse and discourse analysis modules.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Core Speeches
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Introduction
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Part I Traditional Approaches to Rhetoric, Oratory and Discourse
  9. Part II Critical Approaches to Discourse
  10. Part III Critical Metaphor Analysis
  11. Comments on Exercises
  12. Further Reading and References
  13. Glossary
  14. Index