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Question 1

What does generate a presidential discourse ?

Answer 1

have generated several genres, there is an identification with the nation and the new president during the Inaugural Addresses that is recongised as a disticitve type of presidential discourse

Question 2

Inaugural addresses characteristc

Answer 2

Campbell and Jamieson argued that IAs belong to a genre distinct from other forms of presidential discourse. One preliminary characteristic is a their epideictic rhetoric

Question 3

Which are the element of Inaugural address?

Answer 3

1. The people : who need to be unified after a long and dividing electoral campaign.
2. The rehearse national values: in fact, traditional values need to be reaffirmed to unify the audience.
3. They encourage the principles that will guide the future administration.
4. IAs give the president the chance to enact the presidential role demonstrating appreciation of the requirements and the limitations of the office in the American system of government

Question 4

What is the rethorical features according to Ryan?

Answer 4

Ryan claimed that in some instances IAs seem to be the last deed of a long campaign rather than a fresh start. Ryan analysed the persuasive arts of each IA, accounting for its reception by the public, examining different types of archives.

Question 5

Teten. What he suggested ?

Answer 5

examined presidential rhetoric from a chronological perspective, suggesting a clear divide between two eras of presidential rhetoric, and affirmed that those presidents who governed before the early 1900’s are largely dismissed as being more rhetorically stagnant and politically less innovative than their twentieth-century counterpart

Question 6

McDiarmid

Answer 6

He grouped the symbols into four categories. First come symbols of national identity: McDiarmid included references to the American government, mentions of the United States, but also more personal expressions such as our country or my country. Another set of symbols grouped the historical references to America’s glorious past, traditions and memories. Another category included symbols of reference to fundamental concepts such as God, the Constitution, freedom, independence and the economy. The fourth category included symbols of facts or expectations, such as the virtues of the American people, e.g. their intelligence or honesty, reference to present prosperity etc.

Question 7

Whissel and Sigelman

Answer 7

power language as an important descriptor of IAs

Question 8

Hasan and the context

Answer 8

No text can be conceived without a context that contributes to creating meaning.
Hasan challenged the idea that context is always already there before any speaking has been done. Keeping in mind both assumptions
asan developed the concept of Contextual Configuration (henceforth CC), that is, the set of contextual features that relate to a particular language event.
To explain why tests are built in the way they are. In Halliday and Hasan’s words, field refers to “what is happening, to the nature of the social action that is taking place.

Question 9

Generic Structure Potential

Answer 9

defined a concept of genre as a type of discourse and proposed a model for generic analysis called Generic Structure Potential

To summarize : the structure of a text reflects

Question 10

Linguistic Behaviour

Answer 10

Swales affirmed that a genre comprises a class of communicative events, all sharing the same communicative purposes. Communicative events are those activities where language plays a significant role; the linguistic behaviour must predominate to consider the activity a communicative event, in which language cannot be incidental but has to be indispensable.

Question 11

First Inaugural Address

Answer 11

Was delivered by George Washington in April 1789

Question 12

Contextual Configuration : Wahington - Roosvelt- Obama

Answer 12

3 area of CC