Obama speech analysis

[Liz Ronkin]

Thanks, Scott!  I am away from home and AN.  Can somebody be so kind as to
email me the cite?

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Scott F. Kiesling
<kiesling+ at pitt.edu<kiesling%2B at pitt.edu>
> wrote:

> There was a piece in the most recent Anthropology News on that very
> topic (I just read it last night, but don't have the reference).
> It was a nice discussion.
>
> SFK
>
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:32:28AM -0500, Liz Ronkin wrote:
> > From: Liz Ronkin <liz.ronkin at gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:32:28 -0500
> > To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> > Subject: Re: [LINGANTH] Robots to replace Linguistic Anthropologists
>
> > Dear List Folk,
>
> > I have a Linganth student who wants to research and write on Obama's
> 'More
> > Perfect Union' speech, i.e. his March 2008 speech on race.
> > She has two questions for the list.  Can anyone suggest:
>
> > (1) studies and/or work on this speech, in particular, that address the
> > construction of the text to prevent sound biting? [The students has heard
> > that this speech was constructed to present ideas too long to be
> > bited/bitten ... and has found a piece by Jonathan Alter in Newsweek
> > suggesting that venues like YouTube changed the rules.]
>
> > (2) studies and/or work on other Obama speeches that address (some of)
> these
> > issues, and would be of interest to a budding linguistic anthropologist?
>
> > Many thanks!
> > Maggie Ronkin
>
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