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Rhetorical analysis of the speeches delivered by American presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy and Obama

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Mašić, Josip and Kišiček, Gabrijela. (2015). Rhetorical analysis of the speeches delivered by American presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy and Obama. Govor : časopis za fonetiku, 32(1). pp. 57-72. ISSN 0352-7565

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Abstract

The paper analyzes speeches of American presidents F. D. Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy and B. Obama which were delivered in different historical context when the United States of America was directly or indirectly endangered. The main goal of the paper is to determine rhetorical characteristics of the speeches which took place at the time of the crisis, but also to describe the rhetorical style of the speakers identifying the differences and similarities between them. Rhetorical analysis includes descriptive analysis of argumentation, analysis of speech structure and rhetorical style and also the description of the preferred rhetorical tactics. The results suggest that American presidents had similar rhetorical characteristics and used similar argumentation strategies regardless of the different historical contexts and audiences their speeches were delivered to. Regardless of all the similarities between the presidents, each of them demonstrated an individual rhetorical style, justifying the image of some of the best American orators of modern times.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: rhetoric, argumentation, fallacies, political discourse, presidential orations
Subjects: Phonetics
Departments: Department of Phonetics
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2019 08:34
Last Modified: 05 Jun 2019 08:34
URI: http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/11372

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