摘要
本文对54篇美国总统就职演说进行了体裁分析,提出了该体裁的图式结构,并对每一个语步的功能、位置、语言特征及表现形式进行了分析,探讨该语篇结构背后的社会文化因素和心理认知因素,揭示其实现交际目的的特殊方式和语篇建构的规范性。
Genre analysis is an effective way to explore the schematic structure of a text and hence demonstrates its cognitive structuring.This paper attempts to approach the presidential inaugural address as a special type of genre and tries to identify its schematic structure after examining fifty-four presidential inaugurals.Each move of inaugural addresses is further illustrated and analyzed in details and at the same time their flexibility in practical use is pointed out.
