A Linguistic Analysis of American Presidential Speeches in Divergent
Circumstances Premised on Speech Act Theory

Ligeng Wang

doi:10.18686/ahe.v7i22.9711

A Linguistic Analysis of American Presidential Speeches in Divergent Circumstances Premised on Speech Act Theory

Ligeng Wang

Abstract

Political addresses are always meant to be appealing and reaching out to people. Their most important emotional efficacy is in a way realized by means of the actions performed by the utterances. Hence, this paper employs the Speech Act theories to analyze two momentous speeches addressed both by President George Bush, but under very dissimilar circumstances, one being his inaugural address and the other pertinent to the September 11 Attacks of the day. Thus, it is hopeful of usefully deducing from Pragmatics perspectives some
features and norms of political speeches for their communicative functions to be fulfilled.

Keywords

Speech act theory; Speech context; Linguistic analysis

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i22.9711

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