Instruments of Political and Social Transcendence in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
Instruments of Political and Social Transcendence in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to perform analyses, interpretations and decoding applied at the most profound levels of political discourse, using standards of methodology working in conjunction with intricate linguistic and semantic paradigms set against the backdrop of both social and individual psychological platforms. The objective of this research is to both understand and deconstruct the patterns of connectivity between President J.F. Kennedy as a discourse generator and the social masses of reception, the actual people for whom the message is intended. John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech in 1961 is the most powerful and well-known speech by a statesman in the entire history of political communications. Its capacity for ideological impact, the almost perfect combination of language techniques with the emotional vein of social and spiritual desideratum has generated an address that is still given today as an example as the standard of persuasion and ideological seduction. The real power of the speech resides not only within its own intrinsic mechanisms, but also within its capacity to achieve chronotopic synchronicity. In other words, it actually stood the test of time and it still is, in many respects, highly relevant until this very day.

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