The practice has been conventionalized through its recurrent realizations in the international and national discourse, and the norm of apologizing for misdeeds in the distant and recent past has been established through this process...

It is obvious that skills listed in this way are quite elaborate, but complicated and intermingled. In 1950s, Benjamin Bloom categorized reasoning skills on the basis of required levels of mental activities in classroom situation, and put fo...

The arts of political speeches are sometimes considered to be popular and enjoy a high favor among the statesman, particularly, the statesman of the United States of America. When it comes to the political speeches, most of the people may th...

People named the 21st century "speech era". They not only regarded public presentation as the core event of the society, but also believe it is one of the necessary competencies that contemporary people should master...

Humor is part of our life. It can be interpreted from many different aspects. This paper analyzes the cause of humor from the perspective of the violation of the cooperative principle. In conventional conditions people always follow the maxi...

This chapter will discuss the definitions of stylistics and the development of stylistic analysis from various sources. It also deals with a general understanding of business English speech...

The whole thesis is concerned about the use of rhetoric in English speech, and the thesis is divided into three parts. The first part talks about the definition and function of speech. The second part illustrates the definition and function ...

The thesis studies Barack Obama’s re-election victory speech delivered in Chicago on November 7, 2012 at phonological level, graphological level, lexical level, syntactic level and semantic level. Obama’s speech was delivered in a slow s...

Public speech, as one of the special passage styles, is different from daily conversation, novel, drama and poem. It takes the advantage of spoken language, and abandons the mess and loose of it. It features in the elegance in terms of writi...

This research is based on the conceptual metaphor system of George Lakoff, the founder of cognitive linguistics. The author makes researches in the context of common metaphor phenomena in speeches. Combing with the three kinds of classificat...

This paper is going to make an extensive study on Obama’s victory speech from mainly three layers—word-level statistics and analysis, sentence-level statistics and analysis and some unique characteristics displayed in the discourse. The ...

Thirdly, the author provided readers with a series of practical strategies on how to conquer English public speaking anxiety and described some examples of utilizing these strategies in English public speeches so that the reader...

This thesis conducts both quantitative and qualitative analysis of Hillary’s endorsement speech within the theoretical framework of PDA. It attempts to probe into the underlying implication from three aspects—Attitude, Engagement and Gra...

　In this dissertation, 20 pieces of TED talks in different areas – technology, entertainment, design, culture, art and global issue were selected as data. After analyzing the examples, it was possible to sum up 11 important figures of sp...

Rhetoric is the skill of using language in speech or writing in a special way that influences or entertains people. To express feelings and thoughts vividly and with more force, we, more often than not, resort to rhetorical devices, of which...