Critical Discourse Analysis of the Anecdotes Used by the Female Political Leaders
- Tahira Asgher
- Mamuna Ghani
Abstract
This article critically analyses the use of anecdotes in the speeches of Laura Bush, delivered in the period of the electoral campaigns (2000-2008) at the democratic and the republican national conventions. She has ideologically and emotionally manipulated the anecdotes by making use of rhetorical and the discursive structures of the anecdotes.
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- DOI:10.5539/ijel.v6n4p119
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