奥巴马2012获胜演讲文体学分析

Grammar
• For example: • We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened up by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
对美国总统奥巴马2012获胜演 讲英语文体学分析
仝林志，徐跃，马荣吉，郭玉， 梁庆龙
• It will be analyzed in terms of grammar, vocabulary, and phonology .
vocabulary
• Compare to daily conversations, the public speech expression’s choice is more precise. Many emotional words are used to achieve the desired results. Speech language using is decided by its particular context, with both oral and written language characters.
Grammar
• Using appropriate sentence length interchangeably in the speech can arouse audience's feeling.
Grammar
• (3) Parallel construction • In the speech language, the parallel construction is a common rhetoric usage .The use of this structure can enhance audience's attention and impression. It can make the speech more accurate, contagious.
Grammar
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Grammar
• On the contrary, the shortest sentence will gain the most powerful audience response. • E.g. • “That’s why we do this. That’s what politics can be. That’s why elections matter. It’s not small, it’s big. It’s important.
Grammar
• No one who fights for this country ever has to fight for a job or a roof over their head when they come home. • In this sentence, Obama uses a roof over their head to indicate the good life the citizens would live.
vocabulary
• Therefore, it is found this speech is full of spoken words, mostly simple, in order to let the whole country to understand. • Eg: That’s the future we hope for. That’s the vision we share. That’s where we need to go forward. That’s where we need to go. (repetition)
vocabulary
• In the English public speech, we need the attribution of abstract when talk about concepts and quality. • In the meantime, the uses of abstract and complicated word are more precise and serious. In this speech paper, they use the abstract words such as democracy, patriotism to show the political color of the Obama’s politic views.
phonology
• For example: The spirit that has triumphed over war over depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope…
Grammar
• (2) sentence • In informal speech, the speaker use short sentences to enhance the speaker’s power of persuasion. • In this official speech, there are a variety of the lengths of sentences, but if coming along with appropriate pause, a long sentence is not difficult to understand.
phonology
• A phonetic figure of speech is a kind of rhetorical usage based on pronounces of the words. In the paragraph, it appears some words with the same consonant to make the speech more convincible.
Grammar
• (1)Metaphor • Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another. A metaphor is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of a metaphorical word in place of some other word.