Project structure event schema and verb potential semantic two-level interaction research;The humanities and social sciences research youth fund project in 2017 of ministry of education approval(Number:17YJC740130).
Aristotle’s famous theory on rhetoric(Logos,Pathos,Ethos,)is a cornerstone in public speech.The paper would focus on Ethos and its implement in rhetoric devices in public speech.It would make an analysis on Michelle ...
This paper intended to analyze the speech made by Michelle Obama based on the theory of Kenneth Burke's New Rhetoric. With Dramatistic Pentad and Identification, used in the paper, examples are extracted from the text...
Conceptual metaphor plays an important role in delivering political speeches for it can make abstract and complicated political concepts into clear and vivid statements. Therefore, it is often used by politicians. The...
This paper attempts to conduct a comparative study on Obama’s two speeches—his second inaugural address and his commencement speech in The Ohio State University in 2013 based on Halliday’s theory of Interpersonal F...
In this paper, we present a comparative study of Obama's closing statements in the presidential debates, in particular, the first and third debates with Mitt Romney in 2012. Obama was considered to have done poorly in...
The thematic progression Patterns help to clarify the semantic relationships between the sentences and the method of the development in the texts,and they have been one of the important methods to analyze the discours...
Theme and thematic progression is one of the three theories for discourse analysis.The article examines how the theme system and patterns of thematic progression can realize and facilitate the internal and external co...
This thesis tries to analyze the language features of Barack Obama's two inaugural speeches in 2008 and 2012 from the linguistic aspects,including sentence types as well as figures of speech which included imperative ...