畢業(yè)論文：A Stylistic Analysis and Comparison of Speeches

A Stylistic Analysis and Comparison of Speeches
Delivered by Obama and Hu Jintao

Submitted in Partial Requirement
For the Degree of the Bachelor of Arts

By LUO NAN


UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
ASSOCIATE PROF. YE AI-*IN

Registered No.0819114011
College of Foreign Languages
Huaqiao University
May, 2012

Abstract
As implied by the name, the so-called public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners. People always put a high value on public speaking because it always has been a vital means of communication. Public speaking plays an essential role in both individual development and social advancement. Scholars at home and abroad have already done many researches related to this subject from various aspects. Based on the former researches, this thesis attempts to study the sub-genre
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ion 1
1.1 Background of the present study 1
1.2 Objectives of the study 1
1.3 Organization of the thesis 2

2. Literature Review 2
2.1 A Brief review of stylistics 2
2.1.1 What is stylistics? 2
2.1.2 Classification of stylistics 3
2.2 A brief review of the study of public speeches 3

3. Research Methodology 4
3.1 The source of the sample te*ts 4
3.2 Methods of analysis 4

4. Analysis and Results 5
4.1 On phonological level 5
4.2 On graphological level 6
4.3 On le*ical level 7
4.4 On syntactical level 8
4.5 On te*tual level 9

5. Conclusion 9
5.1 Major findings 10
5.2 Limitations 10


A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF SPEECHES DELIVERED BY
OBAMA AND HU JINTAO

1. Introduction
1.1 Background of the present study
“Stylistics is the study and interpretation of te*ts from a linguistic perspective. As a discipline it links literary criticism and linguistics, but has no autonomous domain of its own.” (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylistics_ (linguistics)) The mission of Stylistics is to observe and describe some main characteristics of the style of language, that is the characteristics of the pronunciation, the vocabulary, the synta*, and the te*t, and the purpose is to enable the scholars to understand the e*pression and content better and to use them respectively in the right places. It has many classifications, such as literary stylistics, traditional stylistics, functional stylistics, etc.

Nevertheless, there are few studies considering the rather particular kind of speech: speeches dealing with the crises delivered by the leaders, let alone the researches associated with the stylistics characteristics. The research samples are all from the speeches delivered by Obama and Hu Jin-Tao. And the analysis will abide by the steps of description—— interpretation——evaluation just as Michael Short（1984）, the English Linguist mentioned in his work Who is Stylistics. Thus, specific e*amples will be selected from the te*t to elaborate the stylistic features.

1.2 Objectives of the study
The researchers in the field of Stylistics have been paying more and more attention to the study of public speeches, yet the study about the speeches dealing with crises delivered by leaders of the countries stay at the very beginning of the long way. Therefore, theoretically, this thesis is aimed to help broaden the studying scope of this field.

On the other hand, the thesis attempts to assist English learners with their language skill on public speaking. This is the information age, and those who are good at getting their meaning across among people are more likely to be successful. Communicating effectively with the others is getting more and more important. Hence, by analyzing the stylistics characteristics of the public speeches, the author hopes that the thesis would in some way benefit the English learners and contributes to their effective communication in their daily life.

1.3 Organization of the thesis
The present thesis consists of five parts. Part One introduces the background information，the objectives of the study and the organization of the present thesis． Part Two is literature review, which is composed of brief reviews of the current situation of the study both home and abroad．Part Three includes the research methodology which contains the means of research and interview, and a brief introduction of the sam ……（未完，全文共24550字，當(dāng)前僅顯示4416字，請(qǐng)閱讀下面提示信息。收藏《畢業(yè)論文：A Stylistic Analysis and Comparison of Speeches》）