The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion, <i>by Craig Allen Smith, Kathy B. Smith</i>

Ryan, Halford Ross; Smith, Craig A.; Smith, Kathy Bergren

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“…Seeing the frame of meaning that is reflected in h the use of repetition in the lines of President Trump's speech, this seems consistent with the view that basically, the American president's Speech 1s a political sermon (Romagnuolo, 2009) namely the form of a speech that contains political perspectives that followed the formula of Jeremiad's preaching of the Puritans since the beginning of America. The characteristics of the speech that begins with identifying the crisis, exploring the nation's values, and promising solutions through change and a participatory attitude are characteristics inherent in the Puritan Jeremiad structure (Smith & Smith, 1994). Although there are differences in the substance of jeremiad, the structure of thought in President Trump's speech appears similar to that of jeremiad.…”

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Interpreting repetition expressions in the writing of Trump’s addresses during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Gustine

Setiawan

et al. 2023

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has driven a world crisis that requires world leaders to respond by voicing their policies and solutions. The political addresses serve to be the path for these purposes. This creates the need for effective rhetorical strategies or forms used by leaders, particularly presidents, to address the current issues which are not commonly beheld. This study shares the result of the inquiry on the use of repetition in President Donald Trump’s speeches during the Covid-19 Pandemic in America. The study attempts to interpret the type of repetition found in the speeches and their general meaning implications. As a textual study, this research gained data from three speeches of Trump specifically addressing the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic delivered during his attempt to handle the emergence and spread of the Coronavirus in the U.S. since in American literature, an address is also viewed as a literary work, this study deployed Goffman’s frame analysis which is also regarded as double hermeneutic for the analysis process. The findings, then, designate that Trump, in his addresses, applied seven types of repetition; from anaphora to root repetition. Further, the study found that anaphora serves to be the most used repetition, which means the main rhetorical instrument in the addresses. In terms of meaning implications, the repetitions apparently imply the reawakening of the jeremiad structure in the address and the affirmation of the American sense of greatness and role in the world. The findings of this inquiry are hoped to add more theoretical constructions and strategies for rhetoric texts for both crisis and socio-political communication contexts. Its practical contribution goes toward defining and exemplifying language expressions and functions in communicative text writing.

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Section: Promising Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpreting repetition expressions in the writing of Trump’s addresses during the Covid-19 pandemic

Maru

Gustine

Setiawan

et al. 2023

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control: Impact in Scholarly Works

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Going Public, Crisis after Crisis: The Bush Administration and the Press from September 11 to Saddam

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Political leaders craft public communications in a strategic manner and attempt to use mass media as a political resource. With this in mind, we argue that during summer and autumn 2002 President George W. Bush extended the September 11 crisis through emphasis in public communications on internal "homeland" security and an external "war on terror"—discourses into which Iraq was carefully inserted over time. These strategic communications allowed the president to significantly shape U.S. news coverage, helped Republicans gain control of Congress, and propelled the United States toward war with Iraq. Our analysis shows that Bush's emphasis on three themes in combination with a particular sequence of discourse facilitated a subtle shift from a focus solely on homeland security legislation to one that emphasized the dangers of Saddam Hussein's Iraq without substantive changes in the accompanying arguments. Further, analysis of U.S. news coverage during the same dates indicates that news media often followed the president's messages about these topics.

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The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion, by Craig Allen Smith, Kathy B. Smith

Cited by 9 publications

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Interpreting repetition expressions in the writing of Trump’s addresses during the Covid-19 pandemic

Interpreting repetition expressions in the writing of Trump’s addresses during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control: Impact in Scholarly Works

Going Public, Crisis after Crisis: The Bush Administration and the Press from September 11 to Saddam

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