Volume 31, Issue 2, July 2017, Pages 272–280
Joachim CINAMULA KASHULI1
1 Teaching Assistant, Idjwi College, South Kivu province, RD Congo
Original language: English
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article examined the convincing strategies that speakers used in their speeches, especially Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and Barack Obama. It withdrew linguistic realities in different speeches by using a contextual and pragmatic view of the speeches. The results revealed that the non-mastery of the argumentative strategies used by these speakers lead the listener to inadequate interpretation of the message and ideals conveyed by the speakers. It also suggested hard tasks to the listener while interpreting these speeches that embody different devices to convince the audience.
Author Keywords: Understanding, argumentation, interpretation, ideals, message.
Joachim CINAMULA KASHULI1
1 Teaching Assistant, Idjwi College, South Kivu province, RD Congo
Original language: English
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This article examined the convincing strategies that speakers used in their speeches, especially Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and Barack Obama. It withdrew linguistic realities in different speeches by using a contextual and pragmatic view of the speeches. The results revealed that the non-mastery of the argumentative strategies used by these speakers lead the listener to inadequate interpretation of the message and ideals conveyed by the speakers. It also suggested hard tasks to the listener while interpreting these speeches that embody different devices to convince the audience.
Author Keywords: Understanding, argumentation, interpretation, ideals, message.
How to Cite this Article
Joachim CINAMULA KASHULI, “Mastery of Argumentative strategies in Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and Barack Obama's speeches,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 272–280, July 2017.
