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On the Function of Pragmatic Empathy in American Presidential Speeches

Author: ZhuWenPing
Tutor: JinZuo
School: Northwest Normal University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Pragmatic Empathy Courtesy Face First person plural Fuzzy language Euphemism
CLC: H313
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Empathy initially originated in Germany aesthetic meaning the emotional penetration is now beyond the field of aesthetics, psychology, psychotherapy, linguistics and other fields of research topics. In 1991, the phrase \Empathy refers to the mutual emotional verbal communication communicates ideas and understand each other intention in pragmatics. It is not only language - language, Social - Pragmatic, involves how the speaker deliberately obedient people confide express intention obedient how to put themselves to understand the mentality and intentions of the speaker discourse. So far, most of empathy research only from the pragmatic - language or social - Pragmatic proceed, there is no pragmatic empathy system and in-depth research. This article as the theoretical basis the Empathy concept of any proposed natural language, select ten U.S. presidential speeches during 2001-2009 as corpus, empathy conducted research on the language used. Because the speech important role in the life of Western society as well as the manner of election of the President of the United States, resulting in every term of the President of the United States almost all good at speeches. So the president who knows how to use language strategies, and to establish a harmonious relationship with the audience, and to promote the purpose of political views and ideas. Done a detailed analysis of which frequently appear in the paper selected ten U.S. presidential speeches, the first-person plural, fuzzy language and euphemisms, because the three languages ??strategy is to achieve pragmatic empathy means and methods. In this paper, courtesy principles and face theory analysis Pragmatic Empathy in the speech of the President of the United States, as well as the function of Pragmatic Empathy. The text is divided into six parts. The first part briefly describes the background and significance of this study as well as the corpus collected; comprehensive introduction to the second part of the system of the domestic foreign language research with empathy and courtesy; Part III presents the theoretical framework of this study; Part IV The details of this study corpus select and corpus select a reason. The fifth part of the author to use polite language of principles and face theory of language in the speech of the President of the United States with empathy detailed analysis. The last part is a summary of this study. Selected ten U.S. presidential speech in the language with empathy, the authors found that the principles of cooperation and politeness principle with language in the expression of empathy aspects many of coincidence: language transference process is to follow the principles of cooperation the process, the speaker and the hearer always from the other position encoding and decoding performance is a cooperative, polite Pragmatic Empathy generate motivation, the politeness principle compared with Pragmatic Empathy realization provides a guide. Secondly, the language of the present study Empathy three overlapping part between the means, they are talking standing angle and position of the disobedient party to follow the requirements of politeness principle, to narrow the psychological distance and obedient party Avoid direct, take the liberty of expression, to protect themselves and to persuade the speaker in order to achieve social function. Pragmatic Empathy as an effective communication strategy, plays an important role in the day-to-day verbal communication. Therefore, the research on pragmatic empathy can develop the ability to cross-cultural communication, to create a pleasant courtesy communicative environment, reduce misunderstanding between the parties, to avoid conflicts, thus contributing to successful communication. The language in the speech of U.S. President with empathy study itself has some limitations, future research Pragmatic Empathy should be cross-cultural, multi-angle, multi-level.

On the Function of Pragmatic Empathy in American Presidential Speeches

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