Public speech is an art.It presents the features of formal written language while exhibiting characteristics of the spoken.Barack Obama,an excellent speaker,addressed his victory speech on NOV 5,2008 in Chicago.This s...Public speech is an art.It presents the features of formal written language while exhibiting characteristics of the spoken.Barack Obama,an excellent speaker,addressed his victory speech on NOV 5,2008 in Chicago.This speech,which is very convincing,is considered a classic.This paper analyses the speech from four aspects:content,grammatical features,lexical features and semantic features.展开更多
Presidential victory speeches are intentionally employed to achieve certain communicative goals.Based on Appraisal Theory,this paper attempts to reveal evaluation features and to explore realizations and functions of ...Presidential victory speeches are intentionally employed to achieve certain communicative goals.Based on Appraisal Theory,this paper attempts to reveal evaluation features and to explore realizations and functions of prosodies in Trump’s victory speech.The research results prove that an appreciation of the functioning of discourse prosodies can better facilitate our understanding of the stances of writers or speakers.The present study contributes to specifying features of appraisal resources in presidential victory speeches and sheds light on the function of discourse prosodies.展开更多
This paper analyzes the stylistic features of Obama’s speech in Shanghai,from the aspects of Phonetic,lexical,syntax,rhetorical devices,etc.in order to have a better appreciation of Obama’s art of public speaking.
Higher-level foreign languages learners have always paid much attention to English public speeches, especially presidential speeches in the United State. The present paper concentrates on the study of Barack Obama'...Higher-level foreign languages learners have always paid much attention to English public speeches, especially presidential speeches in the United State. The present paper concentrates on the study of Barack Obama's presidential victory speech from the perspective of literary stylistics based on the levels of lexical, syntax, rhetorical devices, etc,with the aim to study the stylistic features of the speech so as to have a better appreciation of Obama's art of public speaking and the meaning of the speech. From the speech we can learn how he procured the support from the public using effective lexical, syntax and rhetorical devices.展开更多
文摘Public speech is an art.It presents the features of formal written language while exhibiting characteristics of the spoken.Barack Obama,an excellent speaker,addressed his victory speech on NOV 5,2008 in Chicago.This speech,which is very convincing,is considered a classic.This paper analyses the speech from four aspects:content,grammatical features,lexical features and semantic features.
文摘Presidential victory speeches are intentionally employed to achieve certain communicative goals.Based on Appraisal Theory,this paper attempts to reveal evaluation features and to explore realizations and functions of prosodies in Trump’s victory speech.The research results prove that an appreciation of the functioning of discourse prosodies can better facilitate our understanding of the stances of writers or speakers.The present study contributes to specifying features of appraisal resources in presidential victory speeches and sheds light on the function of discourse prosodies.
文摘This paper analyzes the stylistic features of Obama’s speech in Shanghai,from the aspects of Phonetic,lexical,syntax,rhetorical devices,etc.in order to have a better appreciation of Obama’s art of public speaking.
文摘Higher-level foreign languages learners have always paid much attention to English public speeches, especially presidential speeches in the United State. The present paper concentrates on the study of Barack Obama's presidential victory speech from the perspective of literary stylistics based on the levels of lexical, syntax, rhetorical devices, etc,with the aim to study the stylistic features of the speech so as to have a better appreciation of Obama's art of public speaking and the meaning of the speech. From the speech we can learn how he procured the support from the public using effective lexical, syntax and rhetorical devices.
