Speech Analysis

The setting is a meeting at the Seventh Conference of the Wives of Heads of State and Governments of the Americas in Panama City, Panama. This was held on October 10, 1997.

The speaker is Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of President Clinton of the United States. As the representative of the United States at the conference, her words would have been of particular interest to the other countries of the hemisphere. She speaks primarily not to politicians but to their wives, and her message is tailored to what she presumes are their interests in protecting women, children, and families. The speech as given in the morning.

The five basic elements of Burkean pentadic criticism are act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose, serving as guides in discovering motives. Kenneth Burke developed the dramatism approach to unify rhetoric and poetic in a single analytical framework under which statements about motives can be studied and compared in terms of the ways in which they treat the dramatic elements of human relations through the pentad, or five elements of act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose. This pentad is meant as a way of analyzing descriptions of human behavior and is not the human behavior itself. Burke is concerned with the analysis of language and not reality. Burke's method is dialectical, though by today's standards it might also be te

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ry purpose of bringing the women assembled together around central ideas, and it also indicated the position of the United States in these matters and the importance given to certain social changes by the American people. The speaker used conversational language to accomplish this task, though her sentences are carefully constructed to repeat certain ideas and emphasize certain issues. Any long term effect will not be known for some time, but if the women assembled join these organizations and effect these changes, the effect will have been considerable. "Commencement Address by the Dalai Lama" Setting This speech was delivered as a Commencement Address at Emory University on May 11, 1998. The audience would have been graduates and their parents and others who attend university commencement ceremonies, and there is a tradition of having well-known speakers address these gatherings. Such speakers are often given honorary degrees as part of the agreement for them to speak, and this is the case here as the Dalai Lama indicates that he has received such a degree and thanks the university for granting it to him. His holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. He
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