英语论文答辩陈述

Good afternoon, all appraises committee members.

I am YY and my supervisor is C C C.

With her constant encouragement and guidance, I have finished my paper. Now, I will present my efforts to you and welcome any correction.

The title of my paper is“”.

With the developing globalization and the increase international trade, different culture values affect everything we do. As a media for communication , language has proved to be influential with regards to transmission of culture values.

Studying the differences embodied in English and Chinese cover letters would be helpful to cross-cultural understanding and it’s also a good advance to our future if we can learn and integrate the different cultural values.

For the above facts, I select the subject of “” as the title of my paper.

I hope by studying this topic we can extend the research field of this theory as well as to avoid cross-cultural misunderstanding, promote cross-cultural communication and have benefits to foreign language learning.

In the main part of this paper, I divide it into seven parts. Apart from introduction and conclusion, this dissertation consists of five chapters.

Part one presents an introduction to the basic concepts and the studying purpose.

Part two presents a detailed literary review of the present study, including the concept of Contrastive Rhetoric, the development of this theory. Moreover, the related studies on the cover letter discourse have also been introduced in this part.

Part three is the theoretical framework for the present research, including the definition of cover letter, the Rhetorical Framework for Persuasion Analysis, Persuasive Modes of Rhetoric, and Persuasive Canons of Rhetoric.

Part four presents the research methodology, including the data collection, data analysis and research questions.

Part five covers the whole process of the analysis of English cover letters and Chinese cover letters. It analyzes the two group letters from micro-level and discusses the research results, the causes of results, the enlightenment and limitation of the study In order to explore the differences between ECL and CCL, the comparative study of the structure will be made and followed with the explanation of the underlying socio-cultural factors at the end of this part.

Part six emphasizes the implications on reading and writing cover letters and its writing teaching.

Part seven draws some conclusions that make an overview of the whole paper.

That is all. Thank you.