Choose one of the following speech transcripts:
Full Transcript: Hillary Clinton’s Economic Speech (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address: Historic Speeches: Inaugural Address (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Freedom From Fear Speech: By Aung Sang Suu Kyi, 1990 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Obama Inaugural Address: 20th January 2009 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Ronald Reagan: Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger Address to the Nation, January 28, 1986 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Ronald Reagan: “Tear Down This Wall” (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
Full Text: Trump’s 2018 UN Speech Transcript (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
The Full Text: Malala Yousafzai Delivers Defiant Riposte to Taliban Militants With Speech to the UN General Assembly (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
In your initial posting:
Paraphrase briefly the contents of the speech. What is it about? What are its contexts (i.e., what is the physical and temporal location, and what is the physical and temporal world outside of the text to which it refers)?
Explain any worldview(s) expressed in the speech. Does the speech come out of a specific cultural paradigm? How are worldview and culture revealed through theme and language use? Remember to refer to specific words, phrases, and sentences.
Identify any cognitive metaphors that assist the speaker in arguing the point and expressing a worldview. Consider the ways of speaking or verbal art used to convey a specific meaning or ideological perspective (i.e., grammar, repeated words, parallelism, structure and style, strategic language use).
Describe choices the speaker has made about the representation of actions, actors, and events; evaluation; representation of knowledge status; naming and wording; and incorporation or representing other voices.
Identify any silences in the discourse. What is missing from the discourse, and what do any absences reveal about the speaker’s meaning or ideological focus?
Assess, in summary, the ways in which discourse and ideology are intertwined. Does the discourse convincingly advocate for social justice or social change?
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