Overview & Methodology

OVERVIEW

For my investigation I’m going to study the last two victory speeches from both UK and US politics and how the speeches are used to evoke faith, belief and hope in their politics. I am studying language and power and I expect to find stylistic techniques such as anaphora and parenthesis to try and relate to the country and make them excited for a new future. I am going to use four speeches from the last four election victory speeches, which are David Cameron and Tony Blair in the UK and Barack Obama and George Bush in the US. I have chosen these as they are all from different parties and represent different political wings from their respective countries. My hypothesis is to find similarities in the nationalism used in their respective countries and also similarities in the techniques and language within political wings (Obama and Blair v Bush and Cameron). Selecting the speeches I was going to use was based on the similarities differences and conclusions I predicted I would be able to draw and highlight. Initially I was going to investigate only the speeches of David Cameron on his election campaign but I decided to try and use a greater range of data so I decided to use one from the last four election campaign victories from four different prime ministers and presidents.

ETHICALITY                                                                                                                                                  

There are no ethical issues in my research as the speeches I am using have already been published therefore being no complications and no reason to seek informed consent.

RELIABILITY                                                                                                                                                  

I believe my investigation is reliable in that I am using speeches that directly support my hypothesis and cover the primary aspects of politics, being from the US and the UK and with the Democrat and Labour party representing a similar political stance as do the Conservative and Republican Parties.

COMPARABILITY

My investigation will be comparable as the data I have collected spans and spreads across a range of politics. As both the speeches of David Cameron and Tony Blair are both UK election campaign victory speeches I expect to find similarities between them and will be able to differentiate between the UK speeches and the US inauguration speeches of both