INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Volume 2, Issue 3
December 2015
Speech Acts in Selected Political Speeches
Suhair Safwat M.
Hashim
University of Sulaimani, Iraq
The research was about speech act in selected
political speeches. The aims of the study are to identify
the speech act features of the selected speeches, to analyze the features in
relation to the contexts in which the speeches were presented, and to determine
how the identified features project the message in the speeches. In this
research, two political speeches were selected of John Kerry from the 2004
Presidential Campaign about The Economy and Middle Class Families and
the second is George W. Bush speech – Inaugural address in 2001. The
result from two speeches reveals that Kerry’s speech is characterized by the
use of commissive speech acts, especially in political campaign where it is
essential for candidates to persuade their listeners towards a desired goal of
winning elections. In Bush’s speech, the use of assertive speech acts have a
truth value which commits the speaker to the truth of the expressed
propositions and consequently provide whatever motivation and/ or
justification.
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