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1. 1. Barack Obama’s identity-building in the health care debate: A corpus-assisted discourse study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Katherina Riesner; [2016]
   Keywords : Discursive identities; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; strategic maneuvering; Affordable Care Act; epistemic verbs; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : In this study, I demonstrate that identity-building is an important discursive strategy for President Barack Obama in the seven-year long debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The data for the study comes from a 6-million word corpus of speeches that were held by Obama between January 2009 and January 2016, all published by the White House. READ MORE