英语就职演讲和竞选演讲的情态对比探析  

A Comparative Probe into Modality Usage in Inaugural and Electoral Addresses

作　　者：余朝国[1] 

机构地区：[1]厦门大学外文学院福建厦门361005

出　　处：《西安外国语大学学报》2012年第4期62-66,共5页Journal of Xi’an International Studies University

摘　　要：论文所要探析的是就职演讲和竞选演讲中情态的使用状况。就职演讲和竞选演讲同属于政治演讲,因而它们必然存在共性的地方。但由于它们属于不同类型的政治演讲,本身存在着不同的内容和目的,因而在情态的使用方面必然存在差异。论文从系统功能语言学的理论出发,分析情态词在这两类演讲中的异同。相同之处是:在这两类演讲中,高量值和低量值的情态词占的比例比中量值情态的比例低;不同之处在于:高频出现的情态词在这两类演讲类型中的使用有较大的差异性。这些情态词使用的差异性反映了演讲者不同的情感态度倾向。This paper is to analyze modality usage in inaugural address and electoral address. Inaugural address and electoral address belong to political speech, hence having something in common. But since they are of different political speech, they must have many different aspects. The paper analyzes the similarities and dissimilarities of modality usage in the two different discourses from the perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar. The common point is that the percentage of high value and low value of modality is lower than that of middle value of modality. And the different point is that there are many differences in the usage of high frequent modality. These different modality usages signify different modal tendencies of addressers.

关 键 词：就职演讲 竞选演讲 情态词 情态量值 

分 类 号：H030[语言文字—语言学]