A Rhetorical Identification Analysis of English Political Public Speaking: John F. Kennedy’s <i>Inaugural Address</i>

Qiang Zhou; Bahram Kazemian

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A Rhetorical Identification Analysis of English Political Public Speaking: John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

Qiang Zhou, Bahram Kazemian

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 4, Issue 1-1)

Received: 5 July 2015 Accepted: 15 July 2015 Published: 2 September 2015

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Abstract

Since political discourse reflects the close relation between politics and language, it has attracted many scholars’ attention at home and abroad. Therefore, English political public speaking (EPPS for short), the subcategory of political discourse, has been chosen as the subject of the study. Based on the findings of Kenneth Burke’s new rhetoric and classical rhetoric, the identification strategies of EPPS in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address from the perspectives of rhetorical content and rhetorical form were probed. Since EPPS is always well-prepared rather than impromptu, the identification strategies via rhetorical content and form are always employed by the speaker to accomplish their purposes.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 4, Issue 1-1) This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, and Grammatical Metaphor in Political and Advertisement Discourses
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.s.2016040101.12
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English Political Public Speaking, New Rhetoric, Identification, Common Values and Beliefs, Antithesis, Emotional Appeal, The Conventional Form, Figurative Form, Parallelism, Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

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Qiang Zhou

College of Foreign Languages, Ludong University, Yantai, Shandong, China
Bahram Kazemian

Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

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