Date of Award
2011
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Document Type
Master's Paper
Program
Communication
Department
Communication
College
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Faculty Advisor
Littlefield, Robert
Description
In this paper, I present studies of three of Barack Obama's speeches. In section two, I analyze Obama's "New Beginning" speech in which he attempts to improve relations between the United States and the Muslim world and find that Obama's speech fulfills the requirements ofNeo-Aristotelian analysis and benefits from Obama's ability to view the world from different perspectives. I then study in section three Obama's "Prague Speech," in which the President advocates for the reduction of nuclear arms, and reveal that Obama crafts a new metaphor that centers on a journey in which nations traverse a bridge from the past to the present. Third, in section four I examine Obama's speeches on the liberation movement in Libya from the perspective of narrative criticism. I discover that Obama crafts a new narrative of internationalism that creates a Libyan identity centered on agency. I conclude and describe how Obama' s speeches serve as evidence of second modernity and discuss what I have learned during my time at NDSU.
Recommended Citation
Geiger, Jude Justin, "Presidential Rhetoric for Second Modernity: Three Cases from the Discourse of Barack Obama" (2011). Communication. 8.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/communication/8
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
Rights Link
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Handle Identifier
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33479