Annotated Bibliography on Persuasive Speech

Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PERSUASIVE SPEECH
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PERSUASIVE SPEECH
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PERSUASIVE SPEECH1
Altikriti, S. (2016). Persuasive speech acts in Barack Obama’s inaugural speeches (2009,
2013) and the last state of the union address (2016). International Journal of Linguistics,
8(2), 47-66.
Persuasive speeches are quite common on political grounds as it creates a significant
impact on the individuals of the society to persuade or drive them into a certain action. The
researcher attempts to illuminate the use of persuasive speeches during political addresses.
The speeches taken into consideration for this reading is those of Obama from the years 2009,
2013 and 2016. Data depicts that President Obama used sentences in his speeches that were
more diverted to perform constative acts of speech rather than other forms where assertive
illocution is a predominant factor for persuasive speech. Aristotle connected persuasion and
communication by three major ways, including, an appeal using reasons and rationale, an
appeal by using ethics and lastly, an appeal by using emotional or aesthetic values. This is a
popular differentiation based on the domains of Logos, Ethos and Pathos. The article studies
the usage of the word ‘persuasion’ in many different ways like influencing, manipulating or
tempting and convincing. The article analyses the persuasive speeches based on strategies,
political discourse, various models, pragmatic processes and data analysis.
In the 2009 speech that the African-American president Barack Obama delivered
rested on the theme of “A New Birth of Freedom” and comprised of a voluminous sixty
percent of the speech as the constative speech in the record of speeches. This speech was
inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s most memorable and famous speech. The speech had almost
sixty percent of assertive while depicting only a thirty-seven percent of informative account
besides greetings, gratitude and so on. Obama stressed on the creation of a new America,
laying an emphasis on the ancestors who have contributed in the achievement of success for
this nation. Use of language tactics to enable to audience to identify with his perspectives and
agree to them is a part of his speeches. In the 2013 speech, he focused on gender equality,