Clinton’s Speech is political According to Aristotle, all oratory can fall into three basic genres. These three genres include Political, Forensic, and Ceremonial. From 300 B.C to present day, every oratory can be placed into one of these three major genres based on a variety of different characteristics. On June 7, 2008, Hillary Clinton gave her concession speech to announce her stepping down from the democratic campaign. Clinton speaks to the citizens of the United States, especially those within the Democratic Party, and encourages them to support, her former opponent, Barack Hussein Obama. Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Concession speech fits into Aristotle’s political genre of oratory based on the similar characteristics of speaker, audience, …show more content…
Aristotle’s ceremonial genre has broader parameters for each characteristic, which could technically include the specific characteristics of Clinton’s speech. The venue audience and speaker of a ceremonial event can be of little importance or skill. For example in a Ceremonial event, the audience consists of the public or simply passive observer and the speaker just simply must be a skilled orator. This is true for Clinton’s speech because in present day all events are televised and can be viewed by almost anyone. However, as stated earlier, the majority of the public in the United States are voting citizens, making the public a more political audience. A ceremonial speech takes place in an Agora, a relatively open or public space, which Clinton does use. Clinton also mentions the present, similar to speeches within the Ceremonial genres. Even though Clinton also speaks about present day, each time she does it mainly incorporates actions that are needed for the future. Clinton uses her present actions to encourage others to agree and follow in her actions, in this statement “Today, as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him and throw my full support behind him.” (Clinton) The purpose of a ceremonial speech is to adjust current attitudes toward someone. This is also the evident …show more content…
Hillary Clinton gave her endorsement speech on June 7th 2008. Using Aristotle’s ideas form c 300s B.C. Clinton’s speech can be placed into Aristotle’s Political genre. A political speech must have a political speaker and voting citizens as an audience. These are definitely true for Clinton’s speech. Clinton also describes the future and tries to convince the audience of the value for her purposed actions. This is also true for political speeches in which the audience must decide on these future events or action and whether or not the speaker established the expediency or harmfulness of the proposed actions. Clinton’s speech most accurately fits into Aristotle’s genre but it can also fit under the more generic Ceremonial genre. However, Hillary Clinton’s 2008 endorsement speech is typically viewed as a political speech or event because of its more political setting and characteristics that are more
Overall, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a convincing speech on women’s rights at the U.N. World Conference by using the key rhetorical techniques ethos, pathos, logos, and anaphora’s. The use of these techniques helped the audience believe in the cause of which Clinton was speaking about, sympathize for situations females were being put through, and working to strive towards equal rights for everyone. Clinton used the same stance throughout her speech and raised her voice at points in her speech that needed
Since the beginning of mankind, humans always use their skills of persuasion in order to prove a point to an audience. John F. Kennedy and William Shakespeare, though it is a 362 year difference, wrote and announced work displaying persuasion values. John F. Kennedy, in his Inauguration Speech, and Antony, a character in the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar, uses the tools of language and persuasion in order to deliver the audience their intended reasoning. In both of the speeches, some of the tools that make these speeches effective is the tone, the rhetorical devices, and persuasive appeals.
It is not just saying good-bye to the public, but the speech carries information which has been useful for the public in understanding the political agenda of the country. In this way, the speech is an informational one as well.
In response to his alleged affair with Ms. Monica Lewinsky, who at the time was an intern at the White House, President Clinton took to a national broadcast to clear his name. In his testimony, Clinton begins with a formal and slightly apologetic tone, and then subtly shifts the blame from his actions to the nosiness of the American public, victimizing himself. There were four different tone shifts in this particular speech, and he uses this to his advantage in turning the spotlight away from his private life, and to national issues. In his address, President Clinton uses a wide variety of rhetorical devices to convince his audience, the American people, that his stance on the matter is the most valid, and to reestablish his credibility,
To summarize this analysis, Hillary Clinton shows us how as we unite, the stronger our bond is. She uses clever ways to show this action. Though she did not win this presidential election, she is still loved by many. She helped herself because of the way she wrote and persuaded people to join her. Using rhetorical appeals
The best way to examine this speech is through a speech-act methodology. Speaker-setting and speaker-audience relationships are key in the analysis of this situation. Before answering the proposed research question we can ask another important question. Why did former President Bill Clinton choose to give this address? According to the Hart text several things must be true. 1. The speaker feels something is wrong. After several rounds of questioning the American public was growing ti...
Though Kennedy and Clinton addressed their audiences nearly thirty-two years apart, each rhetor faced a common rhetorical barrier – an American populace too heavily focused on the personalities within each respective presidential election rather than the true issues confronting the United States. To overcome that barrier, both Kennedy and Clinton utilize definitional strategies – in the form of association – as well as language strategies –specifically, historical allusions. Whether or not the speeches directly correlate with both candidates winning their presidential elections does not concern the examination; this paper observes how exactly the rhetorical devices used served to dissolve the barriers between the rhetor and the intended audience.
In addition, Reagan's speech is an example of an Aristotelian way of teaching. The audience has an exigency to hear improvement for the future of America. Reagan fulfills this need by providing inspiration in his speech. This convention is a political rally, and Reagan seizes the opportunity to persuade all to vote Republican: for if a Republican candidate is in office, the country will have a better chance for an improved America.
She uses strong words to evolve her speech. “We must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself”,” Every women deserves”. When she uses these words(respect and deserves) the message is clear. Clinton is fighting for women rights, she takes this topic in a serious way. It is a commitment she has and wants everyone to listen.
The connection between these three elements are very strong, they are used right after each one gave out such as ethos go after logos. Not only used logos, ethos, parallelism but Hillary Clinton also used cause and effect and pathos tools to make the speech more influence. She made her points clear that women also are important as men do, sometimes they are even greater. If women are treated well, they could change the whole world. This is the message that I found in this speech. From “Woman’s right are Human’s Right” speech, I learned that in order to give a good speech, I need to combine many literary techniques to make it more fluent. Importantly, where to apply the right tool to amplify the effect of the
Hillary Clinton speech “Women Rights” transmitted a crucial message to the world and that was to do something about gender inequality. Pathos helped transmit an emotional appeal to the audience and make them see the soft side of Clinton. Pathos and Logos supported the facts stated to the public with evidence and compassionate words. The rhetorical device of repetition made it possible for the audience to realize the level of importance the topic had. Altogether made the speech have the great impact on people’s perspectives about women
The goal of Hillary’s speech is to persuade her audience that her ideas are valid, by using ethos, pathos, and logos. Hillary is the First Lady and Senator, she shows credibility as an influential activist for woman rights. “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my country and around the world” (Clinton 2).
If a statement attempts to persuade the audience by making a reasonable claim and offering proof in support of that claim. In my opinion, the best logos moment for Clinton is when she claim ¨ So you gotta ask yourself — why won 't he release his tax returns? And I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he is not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he 's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don 't know all of his business dealings but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million dollars to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he does not want the American people, all of you watching tonight…¨ this was a useful tool to make people doubt about Trump honesty and integrity. Trump had a good logos argument with the Iran deal. ¨This is one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history. The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problems. All they have to do is sit back 10 years and they don 't have to do much. And they 're going to end up getting nuclear.¨ both of the candidates have ups and downs in the debate. We can compare and contrast both of the candidates from the words they express, since being a president words
Elie Wiesel, a Noble Peace Prize winner and Boston University Professor, presented a speech as part of the Millennium Lecture Series at the White House on April 12, 1999. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton hosted the formal lecture series. Numerous dignitaries from a wide array of public, private and foreign office attended the event. Although Elie Wiesel designed his speech to persuade, it actually fell somewhat outside the deliberative genre category, as being more non-typical within this genre category.
On July 27, 2004, Barack Obama made arguably his most important speech, “The Audacity of Hope”, at the Democratic National Convention Keynote Address. These conventions are for political parties to announce a winner for nomination. All the way through his piece, Obama focuses on connecting Americans and himself to the audience. In fact, at the time, Barack Obama was a US Senate candidate for the United States president, and in making this speech, was offered a window for raising his popularity. Throughout “The Audacity of Hope” speech, Barack Obama implements three main devices to raise his political popularity: repetition, abstract language, and structure.