Analysis of Obama’s Speech from the Perspectives of Systemic Functional Grammar

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10.2991/asshm-13.2013.119How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Thematic structure, pattern of thematic progression, cohesion, person, text

Abstract

Textual Function refers to that how peo-ple organize information when using lan-guages, it consists of three elements: Thematic Structure, Information Struc-ture and Cohesion. Interpersonal Function is a language function that helps to establish, maintain and confirm interpersonal relationships through mood, modality and person. These two functions together with Ideational Function are named as three functions in Systemic Functional Grammar. The paper aims to discuss Thematic Structure and Pattern of Thematic Progression, Cohesion and Person in The Audacity of Hope in order to briefly analyze that how the text develops and also how the speech becomes a huge success.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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