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The Study on Persuasion in English Political Speeches Through Metadiscourse

Author: ZhaoYue
Tutor: XuChaoZuo
School: Changchun University of Science and Technology
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Political speech Metadiscourse Persuading Function
CLC: H311.9
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


Metadiscourse as a relatively new concept in the field of discourse analysis , continuous attention in recent years . Many researchers analyzed a variety of stylistic metadiscourse . However, these studies mainly focused on the study of written discourse , English political speech as a kind of public speaking has been rarely involved . Political speech is mainly used to convince the audience to take action or a change of attitude , strong persuasion . Of selected 20 strong persuasion classic English political speech as an object of study , analysis Metadiscourse how to help achieve a the English political speech to persuade function . This study Hyland metadiscourse interpersonal mode as the analytical framework as the metadiscourse the classification system , the application persuasion mode of rhetoric three . Three persuasion mode , respectively , a rational appeal , the character demands and emotional appeal . Rational appeals to resort to the logic of the discourse the character demands recourse to the personality of the speaker , the emotional demands of resorting to the emotions of the audience . By careful analysis , the study found , interactive Metadiscourse , such as migration markers framework tag , code notes, certificates source mark , within the indicators in mind can help the audience to understand the discourse, in order to achieve the rational appeal of persuasion mode ; interpersonal dynamic metadiscourse such fuzzy language , belief marked , intervene mark , attitude markers and markers can help authors show of personality , personality demands in order to achieve persuasion mode ; intervention marked attitude markers , self mentioned fuzzy language certificate source , convinced that the mark can mobilize listeners emotional persuasion mode in order to achieve emotional appeal . In addition , by further quantitative analysis , this study found that , in English political speech , migration mark and framework markers play a more important role for the achievement of a rational appeal ; fuzzy language and belief tag is a common means of two kinds of personality demands ; intervention mark and self mentioned is more conducive to the realization of the emotional appeal . The study Metadiscourse how to help increase the English political speech to persuade effect , this is a new angle . The authors hope that this study can enrich the study of metadiscourse .

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