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Obama: I, you, they or we?

January 21, 2009 by Nikos Anagnostou

From the word tree of the inauguration speech. Pretty telling!

I

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You

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They

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We

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Posted in Events, People | Tagged inauguration, obama, word tree | 4 Comments

4 Responses

  1. on January 21, 2009 at 1:55 am An analysis of the rhetoric of President Obama's Inaugural Address

    [...] the most telling analysis of the speech are these snapshots of a Java-enabled ‘word tree’ of the speech showing the number of times Obama used [...]


  2. on January 21, 2009 at 2:08 am Ian Griffin

    Thanks for publishing this very useful analysis. I used it to conclude my analysis of the speech – http://tinyurl.com/8rr4ly


  3. on January 23, 2009 at 10:04 am Words That Don’t Work | GoSelling

    [...] we balance “you” with “they”? Obama’s speech did that. Check out the word tree of the inauguration speech [hat tip to Ian [...]


  4. on April 23, 2010 at 4:21 pm rossana

    Thank you for your cooperation!
    Very useful for my study.



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