Introduction to Psychology 1/IPSY103/Cognition and language/Challenge

Language matters. The current state of global politics has provided numerous examples of political rhetoric that attempts to shape the media narrative. Find a public speech by a politician in your country and analyze it for the use of language. What are some of the words or phrases that the politician has used that attempts to manipulate the audiences’ interpretation? Post a link to the source and your analysis.

You can either record your efforts in your private learning journal or you can make your learning public on your blog by using the hastags #IPSY103 #PoliticalSpeechAnalysis. Using these hashtags will allow WEnotes to harvest your contribution and add them to the Course feed.