scholarly journals Rhetorical and Linguistic Analysis of Bush's Second Inaugural Speech

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Imad Hayif Sameer
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Inaugural Speech ◽  
Linguistic Strategies

This study attempts to analyze Bush's second inaugural speech. It aims at investigating the use of linguistic strategies in it. It resorts to two models which are Aristotle's model while the second is that of Atkinson's (1984) to draw the attention towards linguistic strategies. The analysis shows that Bush's second inaugural speech is successful because it manifests and achieves these strategies.  

Text-linguistic analysis of performed language: revisiting and re-modeling Koch and Oesterreicher

Linguistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin Werner
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Essential Variable ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Linguistic Analyses ◽  
Linguistic Approach

Abstract The present contribution starts from the general observations (i) that the study of text varieties has commonly emphasized the mode (speech vs. writing) as an essential variable and (ii) that linguistic analyses increasingly consider performed language (i.e., fictional scripted material as represented in telecinematic language and lyrics, for instance) as an object worth studying in its own right. It is recognized (i) that assessing performed language in terms of the traditional spoken-written dichotomy fails due to a number of inherent properties of relevant text varieties and their circumstances of production and reception, and (ii) that schemes applied within conventional (bottom-up) register perspectives may not be fully adequate for a text-linguistic approach toward performed language either. Koch and Oesterreicher’s communicative model (KOM), which takes account of contextual factors as well as of specific linguistic strategies and establishes a continuum between the language of distance and the language of immediacy, as well as three attempts at modifying KOM are introduced. It is argued that both KOM (as a top-down model) and its modifications have weaknesses when dealing with performed text varieties. An enhanced communicative model, including the dimensions synchronicity and authenticity, is sketched out, which could serve both as a starting point and complement for empirical investigations of textual variation whenever performed language is included.

Ideology as Social Imagination

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Patrizia Torricelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Cultural Interventions

Ideology is a social imagination of world's truth that can be shaped and eventually corrected before it becomes historically dangerous. The methodology of linguistic analysis offers the essential approach to a positive resolution of this problem because it suggests how to prevent risky ideologies, or how to change them once they are established. The suggested linguistic strategies refer, particularly, to the textual analysis of meaning as the key to discover the imaginative value of words in a culture from which the people's mentality derives. Cultural interventions in this field of social life are, obviously, very important to foster mutual understanding, welfare, and world peace.

scholarly journals Linguistic Analysis of the Two Speech Functions in President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2 (17)) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Vicky Tchaparian
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Inaugural Speech

The purpose of this study is the linguistic interpretation of President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech during the ceremony held in Washington D. C. on January 21, 2017. The two functions of speech which will be analyzed here are the grammatical and textual functions. The findings reveal two main themes: one is the criticism of the economic situation of America during the last years and the other is a promise and a vow for a change towards a better future where the economy will flourish and there will be prosperity. The study shows the president’s determination to make America strong again, safe again, and prosperous again.

scholarly journals Consultants in Academic Libraries: Challenging, Renewing, and Extending the Dialogue

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Marni R. Harrington ◽  
Ania Dymarz
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Evidence Based Decision Making

There is a trend in academic libraries to hire consultants for internal crises, change management projects, strategic planning processes, outcomes assessment, evidence-based decision making, information literacy instruction, and more. Although we hear informally about the use of consultants in academic libraries, the practice has gone unexamined. We employ a historical and linguistic analysis of consultants in academic libraries, using a critical framework for this research. A critical perspective provides a structure to discuss issues that librarians may not have been able to previously fit into library practice dialogue. A chronological history of consulting in libraries acts as our literature review. This review, along with a targeted examination of library and information science resources, is used to guide two lines of linguistic analysis. The first provides a critique of the core tenets used to define and characterize library consultants, namely, the claim that consultants are unbiased professionals who bring “expertise” and “fresh” ideas to libraries. The second analysis investigates the rhetorical strategies used in existing texts: polarizing language, straw man reasoning, and figurative and indirect language. The discussion section unpacks these linguistic strategies, reflects on what is missing from the texts, and considers how knowledge and power are exerted through language, making connections to the broader context of neoliberalism.

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