Compare the ways Martin Luther King + Adolf Hitler use pre modifiers in their speeches to promote their agenda.
In Hitler’s Anti-American Speech, he promotes his county and military force as powerful, as evidenced through his consistent usage of pre-modifiers, such as: “Today I am at the head of the strongest Army in the world, the most gigantic Air Force and of a proud Navy.[4]” The pre-modifiers are symbols of power and belong into the semantic field of Powerful, with this in mind; Adolf Hitler used them prior to the material nouns, ‘Army’, ‘Air Force’ and ‘Navy’ respectively. This is due to Hitler wanting to reference the German assets at the time as Powerful, which relates to the context of the speech- he wanted to taunt America, for example, …show more content…
[2]” The pre-modifier “mighty” is being used to describe what he aims to achieve, subconsciously creating a pleasing image in the minds of the observers, thus enticing them to accept the message – without them knowing, this conforms to the expectations of Tversky and Kahneman. Guidance of an individual’s judgment or behaviour appears to be based on a subset of the most readily accessible, and perhaps most recently activated concept(s)/cognition(s) at the time of the judgment or behaviour …show more content…
Which almost perfectly fits into the purpose of the speech: To unite America – his agenda, the agenda is the focus so they must push and promote it as much as possible. In short, Martin Luther King’s Speech supports the fact that a speech’s purpose affects its language usage.
Important to be mentioned, Martin Luther King’s pre-modifiers are in place to unite the people, and to promote the power than a collective of people can possess, this is visible when he says: “some of you have come here through great trials and tribulations” the word ‘great’ to describe the struggles of his oppressed audience, and it lack of a better way of saying, it gets them hyped for his cause, which promotes his agenda (power to the
In Hitler’s Anti-American Speech, he promotes his county and military force as powerful, as evidenced through his consistent usage of pre-modifiers, such as: “Today I am at the head of the strongest Army in the world, the most gigantic Air Force and of a proud Navy.[4]” The pre-modifiers are symbols of power and belong into the semantic field of Powerful, with this in mind; Adolf Hitler used them prior to the material nouns, ‘Army’, ‘Air Force’ and ‘Navy’ respectively. This is due to Hitler wanting to reference the German assets at the time as Powerful, which relates to the context of the speech- he wanted to taunt America, for example, …show more content…
[2]” The pre-modifier “mighty” is being used to describe what he aims to achieve, subconsciously creating a pleasing image in the minds of the observers, thus enticing them to accept the message – without them knowing, this conforms to the expectations of Tversky and Kahneman. Guidance of an individual’s judgment or behaviour appears to be based on a subset of the most readily accessible, and perhaps most recently activated concept(s)/cognition(s) at the time of the judgment or behaviour …show more content…
Which almost perfectly fits into the purpose of the speech: To unite America – his agenda, the agenda is the focus so they must push and promote it as much as possible. In short, Martin Luther King’s Speech supports the fact that a speech’s purpose affects its language usage.
Important to be mentioned, Martin Luther King’s pre-modifiers are in place to unite the people, and to promote the power than a collective of people can possess, this is visible when he says: “some of you have come here through great trials and tribulations” the word ‘great’ to describe the struggles of his oppressed audience, and it lack of a better way of saying, it gets them hyped for his cause, which promotes his agenda (power to the