From Personalization to Parrhesia: A Multimodal Analysis of Autobiographical Recalls in Barack Obama’s Political Speech - Conflict and Multimodal Communication: Social Research and Machine Intelligence - page 351

Table 17.3 Score 2. Prague

v.Ds. Few people would have predicted that

someone like me would one day become
the president of the United States

Few people would have predicted that
an American President would one day
be permitted to speak to an audience
like this in Prague

p.i. Ds. Ascending, emphatic peak in duration at

become

Ascending then descending

Peak of duration and intensity at the
word people

S I The subject is not yet closed The subject is closed; emphasis on the

word people

II The world is changing and my presence

here is proof of that. I'm convinced of it.

The world is changing and my presence
here is proof of that. I'm convinced of it.

TS I IMM IMM

II IMM IMM

F I Additional Additional

II Additional Additional

GDs Moves right hand with fingers closed up

and down repeatedly and brings it to his
chest at the words like me , then raises
his index finger at the word become and
then brings his hand back to the lectern

Raises his right index finger and then
brings together thumb and index finger
and alternates these movements, moving
thehandupanddownseveraltimes

Ts Batonlike and deictic Batonlike - assertive, didactic

S I I want to make what I'm saying clear

and I'm involved in the themes of the
speech

I want to make this concept clear

II It's important and I'm talking about

myself

Most people were wrong

TS I IIM IMM

II IIM Imo

F I Additional Additional

II Repetitive Additional

FDs His gaze is serious and grim His gaze is serious and grim and

directed at the entire audience

S I I'm aware I'm here and you're here

II The speech concerns me and I'm serious

in giving it

I'm speaking to the entire audience to
tell a truth

TS I IMM IMM

II IMM IMM

F I Additional Additional

II Additional Repetitive - additional

(continued)

Here again, the complementary analysis of the FACS (AUs 4, 7, 14, 23) shows
how Obama clearly expresses his anger when recalling Europe's division and
immediately regulates this negative emotion (actively suppressing the 14 AUs).