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Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader: An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches
Marta Degani
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Description for Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader: An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches
hardcover. Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.
Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
315
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137471581
SKU
V9781137471581
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99-15
About Marta Degani
Marta Degani is Senior Lecturer of English Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy. Her research interests include cognitive semantics, varieties of English and discourse analysis. She has published mostly on the analysis of political discourse and the study of bilingualism in the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Reviews for Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader: An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches
“The book provides an in-depth, multi-layered image of the various ways in which Obama indeed ‘consistently frames political issues in line with nurturant values’ … . ‘Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader: An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches’ provides an interesting read for any scholar interested in political discourse, rhetoric, discourse analysis, or metaphor analysis.” (W. Gudrun Reijnierse, Metaphor ... Read more