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In his campaign speech, Barack Obama has a goal to encourage and influence the audiences to choose him in the election. That sentence above is pronounced in a
campaign speech delivered on February 10, 2007 at Springfield, Illinois. The sentence “I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for
President of the United States of America ” is an example of representative utterances
contained in persuasive utterances. The purpose of that utterances is to state or give information to all Americans that he would run for president of the United States.
From that speech, the readers get the information that Barack Obama will be a nomination to be a president of America. In pragmatics, that speech aims to motivate
the audiences to support him in the presidential election. Based on the speech, it is known that Barack Obama says the sentence to
make audiences feel interested so, it can affect the mind and strengthen the hearts of the audience to select him. Therefore, Barack Obama tries to says words that could
inspire the hearts of his audience. This fact can be seen from Barack Obama speech that asserting “where I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a
more hopeful America. ” When Barack Obama said that, there will be an impression
that Barack Obama will be a president who is able to make America into a big country. Because of that, the audiences will support Barack Obama to be a president.
The fact can be seen in the campaign video Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President. When Barack Obama declared his candidacy for president, the
audiences were cheering and calling his name. It shows that Barack Obama is able to persuade his audience to give him support.
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