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Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader

An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches

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  • © 2015

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  1. Marta Degani

    1. University of Verona, Italy

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Marta Degani
    Pages 1-6

  3. Political Discourse in the US

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    Pages 7-39

  4. Cognition and Politics

    • Marta Degani
    Pages 40-100

  5. Methodology and Introduction to the Analysis

    • Marta Degani
    Pages 101-113

  6. The Expression of Values in Obama’s Speeches

    • Marta Degani
    Pages 114-174

  7. Values and Metaphors in Obama’s Speeches

    • Marta Degani
    Pages 175-201

  8. Values and Lexical Preferences in Obama’s Speeches

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    Pages 202-224

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 225-229

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 230-315
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About this book

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.

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“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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Verona, Italy

    Marta Degani

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.

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