Linguistic analysis of Obama's speech : ending the war in Iraq

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Language is not just an instrument for expressing the opinions and notions.

It is used by politicians for the purpose of spreading a certain ideology.

This paper aims at showing the linguistics aspects in the language used by the previous American president Obama.

This paper aims to analysis Obama's speech (Ending the War in Iraq) linguistically in terms of phonetics, phonology, syntax (genitive) and pragmatics.

Phonetics and phonology, no specific model has been followed but many different views of point of well-known linguists have been considered.

Syntactically, the data analyzed based on Quirk and Green Baum (1990) regarding the sentence (structure) types.

Pragmatic aspects, Cutting's (2005) model is used regarding the social aspects.

While in speech act theory, Finegan's (2006) model were adopted.

However, this study finds out that president Obama used simple sentences and parallelism to create the feeling of importance.

Also, he used conscience of demonstratives to refer to the removal of his troops from Iraq.

Moreover, Obama were found use directive speech act types many times to refer to his responsibility of ending the war in Language is not just an instrument for expressing the opinions and notions.

It is used by politicians for the purpose of spreading a certain ideology.

This paper aims at showing the linguistics aspects in the language used by the previous American president Obama.

This paper aims to analysis Obama's speech (Ending the War in Iraq) linguistically in terms of phonetics, phonology, syntax (genitive) and pragmatics.

Phonetics and phonology, no specific model has been followed but many different views of point of well-known linguists have been considered.

Syntactically, the data analyzed based on Quirk and Green Baum (1990) regarding the sentence (structure) types.

Pragmatic aspects, Cutting's (2005) model is used regarding the social aspects.

While in speech act theory, Finegan's (2006) model were adopted.

However, this study finds out that president Obama used simple sentences and parallelism to create the feeling of importance.

Also, he used conscience of demonstratives to refer to the removal of his troops from Iraq.

Moreover, Obama were found use directive speech act types many times to refer to his responsibility of ending the war in Iraq.