The Communication Presentation of Barack Obama Public Speaking Style

Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008

On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama [5] replaced Republican George W. Bush [6] as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush?s 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human stem cells [7]. Stem cell research remains a controversial issue in the US. Some individuals consider it immoral to experiment with an embryo because they regard embryos ...

The Dynamic Political Economy of Support for Barack Obama

The Dynamic Political Economy of Support for Barack Obama During the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign In recent years, students of voting behavior have become increasingly interested in valence politics models of electoral choice. These models share the core assumption that key issues in electoral politics typically are ones upon which there is a widespread public consensus on the goals of p...

Positive emotions and the social broadening effects of Barack Obama.

Past experiments have demonstrated that the cognitive broadening produced by positive emotions may extend to social contexts. Building on this evidence, we hypothesized that positive emotions triggered by thinking about Barack Obama may broaden and expand people's sense of self to include others. Results from an expressive-writing study demonstrated that African American college students prompt...

Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama‟s Speeches

The Critical Discourse Analysis is often applied to analyze political discourse including the public speech, in which the speaker wins favorite response from the audience. This paper, based on Critical Discourse Analysis theory and Systematic Functional Linguistics, analyzes Barack Obama’s presidential speeches mainly from the point of transitivity and modality, in which we can learn the langua...