A Study of the Features of Language of Obamas Speeches

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I. Previous Research Speeches of American presidents are always good objects for research and analysis of language style, choice of word and skills of public speaking. Obama has become the focus not only of the U.S. but of the whole world due to his significance to America as well as his great talent of public speaking. There is a trend of all-around Obama-research especially on his speech style. In the U.S. and other western countries there are a lot of observers and scholars analyzing Obama’s speech style and personal style. They gave their opinions and comments on Obama’s speech and published them on their blogs and newspapers, where a lot of discussions on his speech style were aroused. The book Say It Like Obama written by an American writer Shel Leanne focuses on the art and skills of Obama’s public speaking. She collected most of Obama’s significant speeches and presented with abundant examples and explained how did Obama use those different skills in his speaking. She also gave her own suggestions to those who want to follow his speech style. In China there are a lot of books about Obama, while most of them are concerning on Obama’s life and political views. Several academic dissertations by Chinese undergradutes and graduates can be found in document database discussing about a specific part of Obama’s speech. Ⅱ. Existing Problems and Problems to Be Solved in the Thesis Since Obama is the newly selected president of the U.S., the present researches and analyses on his speeches are still in a starting stage. Most of them are not so systematic so far. Some books concerning on Obama’s speeches only focused on his public speaking skills and did not connect them with the style of language. Some dissertations only chose one or two speeches made by Obama as their researching objects, so that the examples were not abundant enough. For this
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