Helwan University Faculty of Arts English Department 2012 CDA, A Look into Minds: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mubarak’s Speeches during The Revolution By ……… Under the supervision of Dr. ……… Abstract The current study aimed to clarifying how politicians deconstruct language in a way that serves their interests and ideologies. It also aimed at investigating how Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can be helpful in revealing the latent ideologies and hidden intentions behind the speakers’ speeches. This was studied by analysing the three speeches of Mubarak, as an example of political discourse, which he delivered during the Egyptian revolution. The current study depended in the analysis of the speeches on a number of CDA tools, pragmatic tools and rhetorical devices. Employing these tools to the speeches showed that when writing their political speeches, politicians, including Mubarak, tend to utilize various linguistic tools, in order to convince their audience with their views, opinions and ideologies.
2. Purpose and Research Questions 1.2.1 Purpose of This Research The present thesis aims to reveal the rhetorical characteristics of Obama’s election campaign speeches using the analytical tools of Aristotle’s three appeals. The author intends to provide a practical method for catching the ethos, pathos and logos concealed in American election campaign speeches and at the same time to put forward a proposal of raising English learners’ awareness in public speaking. So there are two purposes for the writing of this thesis. 1) This thesis is to provide a means of seeing through language, to probe into the rhetorical skills used in Obama’s election campaign speeches and to explain how language is used by powerful groups to reinforce persuasion.
There are three distinct differences between political culture and political opinion which will be discussed throughout this essay. These include individualistic versus shared values, what influences political culture and political opinion, and what creates such difference in both. Political Culture Political culture is described as certain attitudes and practices by persons who shape political behavior. Political culture includes the beliefs, myths, ideas, our moral judgments and political myths about what makes a society ‘good’ or ‘successful.’ Political Culture is the subset of values and practices that relates to government and politics. Political culture is a reflection of the government, but also incorporates elements of history and tradition that may anticipate the current system.
This essay will discuss Weber’s three ideal types of political authority in detail, relationships between these three types. Then it will give reasons why legal rational authority has become the dominant type in modern societies and identify some drawbacks of Weber’s political authority theory. Before discussing Weber’s three ideal types of political authority, it is important to find the reason why he generates these three types. As he argued that power is a too multidimensional form to define and therefore he specifically concentrates on domination and distinguishes two main types of it. One of them is the domination by the authority of office, which showed a strong need for obedience from power (Allen, 2004).
Assess the role of media in politics What is the actual role of the media? Television, newspapers, radio and internet are all forms of media that are used by politicians to put news and views across. The question that is raised however is, what is the media’s role within the political field which leads onto a question of influence. The Sun ran the headline "If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights" (1992, p1), two day later it ran the headline ‘It’s The Sun wot won it’ (1992, p1). This then makes us think that maybe the media and politicians see each other’s roles differently.
ADLERIAN THEORY PERSONALITY Adlerian Theory Personality: Martin Luther King Jr. Mary Louise Williams Argosy University Online Course Personalities Theories 362 14 January 2013 Abstract This paper addresses the Adler theory on personalities of a past political leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The tendency of this paper is for individuals to expand less effort when searching Dr. Kings’ personality and his leadership style. Incorporating Adler, theories is to determine what motivational drive lead Dr. King, to become socially involved in a world of radical behavior, misconception, deceit, and ultimately violence that resulted in his death. The social and psychological implications on personalities are an examination of written literatures of other scholars’ who researched Dr. King, a political leader viewed from multiple theoretical perspectives to understand his early memories. While viewing, the Adlerian analysis in hopes of making sense of both superiority and inferiority of how Dr. King made great strife, achieved, and overcame a life that resulted in almost a perfect one.
October 6, 2014 Exploratory paper My issue that I have chosen is Argument Culture because it talks about different types of topics that we as American argue on a basest everyday like politics, relationship, family and finances. Argument culture is our way to tendency to approach every problem as if it were a flight between two sides. The reason that argument culture is use in politics cause it helps get the point out that a candidate is trying to get out the people so they can get votes in the election. It can play a role in the debate as while cause In a debate you answer series of question that is important for the voters and how they view as the person who they is about to
Macpherson’s views on democracy are very different from what the average person in the 1960’s thought of democracy. His first lecture on democracy was specifically to tell the history of democracy from its birth in 5th century BCE Athens to the modern day. Macpherson points out that democracy’s definition has changed multiple times since its humble beginnings in Aristotelian Athens. This vagueness concerning democracy creates a haze which allows multiple forms of democracy thrive in today’s world. His intentions for undertaking the series of lectures on the CBC were to help clear up this ‘haze’ in people’s minds: “There is a good deal of muddle about democracy…that our thinking about democracy is muddled.” (Macpherson 1) Macpherson categorizes the three different types of democracy today as the liberal, communist, and underdeveloped variants.
In this essay I will discuss primarily how political socialization has impacted me as well as observations that I have made when it comes to political socialization. Political socialization is defined as the teaching and learning of political knowledge, beliefs, and values. Although I had yet to perfect cursive handwriting, I was encouraged to show my civic support by campaigning for different lower level state officials. By the age of ten I was a member of the Young Republicans of America, giving speeches at fundraisers, and being a poster boy for the Harris County Republican Party. I have volunteered and worked for Dr. Rod Paige, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Congressman Tom Delay and Governor George W. Bush to name a few.
Administration and Politics Dichotomy Rolin Dantino Grantham University 12 November 2013 Administration and Politics Dichotomy President Woodrow Wilson is known for his idea that government administration and politics are two separate entities. Wilson describes the contrast between administration and politics like this, “politics is dealt with questions of policy formulation; administration is dealt with carrying them out.” (Pandian, 2010) The distinctions between the two entities have been debated for decades. There are advantages and disadvantages of using dichotomy in the manner that Woodrow Wilson argued. This paper will cover the advantages, disadvantages and why the distinction makes our government work better. The chart below displays the differences between politics and administration: Politics | Administration | Deals with the “expression of the will of the people “.