n t h e l e a d-u p to the presidential election, then-presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama outlined a comprehensive place-based agenda he would, if elected, pursue to improve the lives of low-income residents in urban neighborhoods across the country. In that speech, delivered in July 2007, Senator Obama proposed to infuse poor neighborhoods with a mix of maternal and early childhood fa...

1. Introduction: This study examines the correlation between the Southern Vowel Shift in the Middle Tennessee area and different social characteristics, such as education level, age, and political views. To this end, field recordings were conducted, and the results were analyzed in terms of age, gender, occupation, education, political views, and other factors. The hypothesis is that people who...

In this paper, facial expressions of the three Turkish presidential candidates Demirtas, Erdogan and Ihsanoglu (in alphabetical order) are analyzed during the publicity speeches featured at TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) on 03.08.2014. FaceReader is used for the analysis where 3D modeling of the face is achieved using the active appearance models (AAM). Over 500 landmark points are tracked ...

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...

A presidential election can be viewed as a national drama in which candidate casts herself/himself courageous protagonist who seeks to become collective symbol that embodies the best qualities of nation. Drawing from fields performance studies, French cultural studies and political rhetoric, this article provides critical reading key moment 2007 campaign: Nicolas Sarkozy’s first official on 14 ...

Maintaining communication may sometimes be ignored by the speaker. One have a style of offensive and controversial statements while others speak based on rules without violating theory Grice’s conversational maxims. An example former is Trump’s speech about Orlando Mass Shooting March 16, 2016. Very often Donald J. speeches seem to controversial. However, some audiences find them effectively ac...

This research aims to see the impact caused by candidates presidential of United States in 2020 use speech acts, where an utterance contains pragmatic meanings make listener do what speaker wants through speech, such as statements, orders, offers, thanks and forms that had have direct effect is like punishing. analysis included theory so it useful increase knowledge readers from linguistic circ...