Genc, BilalGoksu, AliBuyukkarci, Kagan2024-08-042024-08-0420141302-9967https://doi.org/10.14812/cufej.2014.003https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/yayin/detay/180487https://hdl.handle.net/11616/92781The research presented in this paper aimed to investigate the linguistic and discourse characteristics of Mr. Obama's press conferences held after the G-20 summits in London in 2009, in Toronto in 2010 and in Cannes in 2011. The President's speeches consist of two main sections: (1) the first section during which he spoke about his plans to deepen international connections and the second during which he answered the questions of journalists from different nationalities-question/answer session considered as spontaneous speech text and labeled a TC, LC and CC. Using concordance software, the number of types and tokens and the type-token ratio were calculated. The results show that although the number of tokens decreases chronically, in terms of the qualitative analysis all speeches display similar characteristics regarding vocabulary variation.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEmotional languageNative languageConcordanceSpeech analysisAuthentic materialsArticle431394510.14812/cufej.2014.003180487WOS:000422240600004N/A