From Candidate to President: Obama’S Discourse Two Years Later

• Authors: Ramona Bran , Andreea Pele
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article explores Barack Obama’s most notable speeches after becoming president. The authors intend to write a sequel to their 2009 paper Yes We Can: A New American Identity in the Speeches of Barack Obama, which looked at Obama’s campaign discourse, and investigate if his rhetoric has changed in the first half of his mandate.

Keywords

EN

American Dream; core values; political discourse; rhetoric

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-10

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Ramona Bran

• West University of Timişoara Faculty of Sociology and Psychology

author

Andreea Pele

• West University of Timişoara Faculty of Sociology and Psychology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0001-3