Full Description
Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Political Discourse in the US 3. Cognition and Politics 4. Methodology and Introduction to the Analysis 5. The Expression of Values in Obama's Speeches 6. Values and Metaphors in Obama's Speeches 7. Values and Lexical Preferences in Obama's Speeches 8. Conclusion



