Rhetorical analysis on hillary clinton s women s rights are human s rights speech
Clinton employed two dominant rhetorical strategies in this speech that engaged audience identification in order to overcome their political separateness and divisions. The eighteen million cracks in the glass, symbol of the numerous votes received by the Senator during the Democratic primaries, pull together the women and the people of the United States and the woman leader who strongly believed they could win, and fiercely fought to break the last obstacle into pieces. Bettag Producer , Nightline. Purdum, T. No other person is given the floor during the speeches, nor is the speaker interrupted by questions. The two rhetorical devices, metaphor and three-part lists, are believed to fulfil strategic communicative functions in political discourse. The Daily Yomiuri, p. Clinton said: Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard. His studies focus on polling and data-driven analysis of US For the first time in American history, a woman has been tantalisingly close to the achievement of the highest position in the power hierarchy. Fearless First Lady gives Chinese critics an earful. Clinton has publically promoted human rights and the empowerment of women throughout her political career Mattina, Though, criticism has been made that the speech ignored the implicit cultural differences in the construction of sexuality Tobin, Though she wanted to be tough, Clinton never directly indicted China by name for abuses suggesting she was sensitive to the rhetorical limits imposed by the U.Charteris-Black explains that the conflict is cither 1 for abstract goals that arc positively evaluated such as rights, freedom, faith, or 2 against social phenomena that are evaluated negatively, such as poverty, disease, injustice, discrimination, social ills, conceptualised as enemies.
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However, after recognizing the diversity of women and delegates, Clinton identified unifying themes of family and activism to bring her audiences, immediate and abroad, together and asserted that there was more that united them than divided them.
Feminism and affect at the scene of argument. Analysis and discussion 16The three speeches under scrutiny can be easily ascribed to the broader category of political discourse, and in particular they relate to those functions or "socially institutionalised purposes" of political discursive practices as defined by Reisiglwho underlines that the several subgenres of speeches can often accomplish more than one of several political functions.
According to Chinese statements, the downtown stadium originally slated to host the Nongovernmental Organization Forum had structural defects causing the event to move to Huairou, 35 miles from the central conference Mufson, His inauguration speech was so powerful that it captured the entire nations attention, and quotes from it are still remembered by people today.
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We have to hold ourselves accountable. How do we know that we can trust him to make wise decisions.
And the right to be heard" HC1, par. The connections were used to ameliorate right-wing apprehension that the conference aimed to destroy family values and sought to establish common ground between divergent interests.
The universal human rights framework also gives individuals language to describe and define their experiences and oppression in familiar, internationally recognized terms and as forms of documented rights abuse.