Obama speech analysis

[Scott F. Kiesling]

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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