Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader: An Analysis of Obama s Election Campaign Speeches

Degani, M.

ISBN 10: 1349501018 / ISBN 13: 9781349501014

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader: An Analysis of Obama s Election Campaign Speeches
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349501018
• ISBN 13: 9781349501014
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.