Political Dimensions of Language

In President Obama's inagural speech, the one main word that he used about 15 times was "nation". I think that this is a very relative word that doesn't surprised me was used that much. After this comes "America" with nine times, and "people" with eight times. I feel like with President Obama using these words very often shows that his main concern is that of the nation and the people in it.

The President that I choose to look at was Dwight D. Eisenhower, only because my dad's name is Dwight. Okay, besides that fact, President Eisenhower used the word "free" 21 times in his inagural speech, with "people" after that with 18 times.  I believe that he used this words very often because that is what he was feeling was the most important in our country at the time.

Some similarities between the two are that they both used people in their speeches very often because people are the ones who keep our country together and have it function as one. One word that President Eisenhower used alot was "faith". In President Obama's inagural speech, he rarely used the word "faith". I feel like this shows the difference between them and how religious they wanted to be at the time that they were giving their speeches.

Overall, President Obama and President Eisenhower have similar words that they used in their speeches, but I think that over time the words have changed due to the fact that America is in need of other things that are more important than they were in earlier years.