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Valeria Suarez.
Olivia Rines.
UWRT 1101 002.

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09 Jan 2015.
Genre Analysis
Political Speech, a term that wWe use the term Political Speech for hundreds of speeches
without realizing how deep the details can go. I chose this genre because I find these kinds of
speeches really interesting and complex. More importantly, I think everybody should have some
knowledge on how to give a successful political speech. , how we can understand the way to get
done a successful political speech .Many different features can apply to a political speech,
depending on what is the intention behind it. Most political speeches main focus is to persuade a
particular audience about an ideology or political project. Various features are part of the structure

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your introduction should be a separate paragraph.

or main points to build a speech of this kind:

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citation.

Repetitions, which can make people remember only the important part of the speech, or
what the speaker wanted them to remember.
Rhythm, the way we manage the speed of our talking. To create suspense or to bring back
the attention to the speech or to specify something on it. The rhythm is crucial, the length of our
pauses can mean a lot.
Rhetoric, because how could we convince people of something without challenging them
a little bit.

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Lexis, such a delicate thing. Depending on the lexis we decide to use, different kinds of
people will listen to our message.
In addition, different ways of persuasion, like the use of arguments or emotions, are
important in the creation of a political speech.
My first example for the genre will be the speech I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King
Jr. I decided to include this speech in my analysis because it is one of the most important speeches
ever done. This speech is a form that expresses the hard situation that people once lived in America
and how hard they had to fight for their civil rights. It also expresses Martin Luther King Jrs
thoughts and it follows the pattern that he used for his political speeches, insisting and claiming
for people to defend what is right. Even when it It has more than one some features that we
mentioned before, like repetition, it is mostly a persuasive speech with emotions as its main part
or content to get to the goal.many emotions involved and repetitions. A small fragment of this
speech:
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of
its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and
the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the
heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis
of freedom and justice.

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Also, I would reconsider the spacing choice. I might consider
presenting this information with bullet points or within a
paragraph.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today. (American History)

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paper.

Secondly, I decided to include the speech that Hugo Chavez did on October 7, 2012 when
he was reelected as president in Venezuela for the fourth time. I want to include this speech as an
example of how different the political speeches can be and the real reasons behind it.. This example
is different from other speeches because it is not trying to bring a new idea to the population,
instead is trying to maintain an idea that was already there and that has been in the people for more
than ten years. Every person has his or her different characteristics and preferences when it comes
to doing a speech and most of those characteristics are repeated by the person in every speech they
make. This particular speech is about patriotism and expressing the feelings after winning the
elections. One of the important things to highlight in this speech is the Lexis he used and, if we
listen to it, the rhythm. Paused speech with colloquial words that can make him closer to the
population. These characteristics were the ones that lead the population to be present and listen to
the speeches that Chavez used to give. A small fragment of this speech:
Viva Venezuela. Viva la Patria. Viva Venezuela. Viva el Pueblo
de Bolvar, viva la revolucin bolivariana, viva el 7 de octubre.

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Primero que nada, aqu estamos de nuevo en el balcn del Pueblo.

En el palacio del Pueblo, en la plaza del Pueblo. Debajo del cielo bendito
de Caracas, no oyen all? Ay mi madre! Me oyen all? Y all?
Tampoco me oyen all? All estn los soldados de la guardia presidencial.
Estamos en Cadena Nacional. Lamentablemente por all en la calle
no se oye, no puedo hacer mas nada lamentablemente. (Correo del
Orinoco)

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Live Venezuela. Viva la Patria. Live Venezuela. Viva el Pueblo de Bolivar, the
Bolivarian revolution viva, viva on October 7.
First of all, here we are again on the balcony of the Town. In the Palace of the
People in People's Square. Under the blessed sky Caracas, is not heard there? Oh my
mother! Did I hear there? And there? I also hear there? There are soldiers of the
presidential guard.
We are in National Chain. Unfortunately there in the street do not hear, I can not
help but unfortunately nothing. (Google translate)
Last, the speech Gender Equality is Your Issue Too by Emma Watson is my third

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How does it relate to your analysis of political speeches as a
genre?

example. This speech includes the introduction of the United Nations campaign HeForShe, to
fight for the gender equality and respect. This campaign is important because both men and women
have been fighting for a long time to overcome this issue and it hasnt improved, because the
gender discrimination and violence are still present in our time and the efforts to decrease it havent
resulted in the expected way. I included this speech because it shows that it is not necessary to be
a politician to do a political speech, as long as you can understand the genre and its rules to do a
successful speech. In addition, I think this speech involves many features of political speeches,
like rhetorical and persuasion with real arguments and facts but also appealing to the emotions. In
this speech, she includes herself into examples, what makes all the speech more likeable for
common people who have live in these kind of situations. Other reason to quote this speech is the
date, is very recent and I believe that we can see how speeches that are not so current can have an
effect kind of alike to current speeches. A small fragment of this speech:

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irrelevant. You should focus instead on the genre aspects.

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These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a
sheer privilege because my parents didnt love me less because I was born a daughter. My school
did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didnt assume I would go less far because I
might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that
made me who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are
changing the world today. And we need more of those. (UN Women)
I believe that the political speeches have and will continue to evolve and grow. One of the
most important things I have seen by myself is that more people in different place are interested in
doing a political speech, listening a political speech and understanding political speeches because
of the effect and importance that they have in the current events around the world. I think that
every day more people is interested in using political speeches in their life, for different reasons of
course. More and more people that are not just politicians but common people are using this genre
to express ideas and get to big masses of people. I learned that to give a political speech
successfully, you must think before. You have to plan and consider many factors that will make
the speech good and understandable, it is not just saying many words trying to say something that
could work. When we are going to do something, it must be well done and I think that knowing
more about how to do political speeches is the first step to do it right.

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Works Cited

American History. Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963. Web. 08 Jan
2015.
Bax, Stephen. Discourse and Genre Analysing Language in Context. Great Britain: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011. Print.
British Political Speech. Why Rhetoric? Web. 24 Jan 2015.
El Correo del Orinoco. Vea el discurso de Chvez el 7 de octubre desde el Balcn del Pueblo
(+Video).7 Oct 2013. Web. 08 Jan 2015.
UN Women. Emma Watson: Equality is Your Issue Too. 20 Sep 2014. Web. 08 Jan 2015.
I really enjoyed reading your paper. I think that this is a strong start. However, there are also
some significant issues that need to be resolved, specifically in terms of following directions. A
number of the questions (please see rubric below) were not answered in your paper. Also, when
you were analyzing your examples, you were focusing too much on the information presented in
the genre and not enough on the aspects of the text that make it fit or not fit the genre described.
This paper should be focused solely on the genre of political speeches. I would strongly
encourage you to reread the assignment sheet and come to me with questions. Also, please make
sure that every claim that you are making in this paper is supported by evidence and/or citations.
All facts, unless they are commonly known by the general public, must be supported by
evidence/citations.

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