A study of factive assertives in political speeches by u.s. president barack obama
The research in this paper examines the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of factive assertives in political speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama and identifies his strategies of using factive assertives. This research is a qualitative study based on the framework of speech act, e...
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| Taal: | English |
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2025
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| Samenvatting: | The research in this paper examines the syntactic, semantic and
pragmatic features of factive assertives in political speeches by U.S. President
Barack Obama and identifies his strategies of using factive assertives. This
research is a qualitative study based on the framework of speech act,
epistemic modality and appraisal theory. It was carried out as a descriptive
analysis. The corpus of 713 samples gathered from 50 most recent and well known speeches was employed to investigate the syntactic, semantic and
pragmatic characteristics of factive assertives in expressing the speaker’s
assertion to the truth value of proposition. Appraisal theory by Martin &
White (2005) is the theoretical framework for analyzing sematic and
pragmatic features. Consequently, Obama’s patterns of using factive assertive
were identified and summarize into general strategies. Syntactic
characteristics discussed in this paper mentions the tenses and structural
position of factive complements, sequences of tenses, the structure and
properties of factive complements and the phenomena of complementizer
deletion. Semantic and pragmatic features are classified and analyzed based
on a main resource of appraisal theory, Engagement. The most significant
finding of the study, the strategies of using factive asserives, are presented.
The study finds out that Barack Omaba has a clear purposes when using each
type of factive assertive predicates. Finally, some suggestions to improving
oratory drawn from the findings are proposed to help English speakers use
factive assertives effectively in speechmaking |
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