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.
M. Degani
Political language US Obama political speeches election campaign rhetoric cognitive models cognitive semantics discourse analysis Lakoff metaphor morality family-based models strict father model nurturant parent model
“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 and the Social World, Vol. 8 (1), 2018)
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