On Barack Obama's Inaugural Address——A Systemic Functional Perspective

Obama's election draws the world's attention because of his skin color,so is his inaugural address.The paper analyzes his inaugural address according to the parameter of the three metafunctions from the perspective of systemic functional grammar:ideational,interpersonal and textual.Accordingly,transitivity system,Mood and modality,and thematic progression in the address are respectively examined.

Modes of Persuasion in Barack Obama's First Inaugural Speech

Based on three aesthetic criteria of logos, pathos and ethos in classic rhetoric theory, this article analyzes the modes of persuasion applied in Barack Obama's first inaugural speech. It has been found out that the perfect combination of these three appeals endows the speech with the rhetoric charm, passion and art of language which efficiently helps Obama to guarantee the political success in election.

Cultural Context and Appreciation to Obama's Verbal Humor

This paper aims to explain the restraint exerted by the deep structure of culture,such as history,religion,social convention and family,in understanding and appreciating foreign verbal humor,especially foreign statesman's verbal humor;whereby the significance of the deep structure of culture is revealed.In this paper,Herbert Paul Grice's Conversational Implicature Theory,i.e.the violation of cooperative principle,is taken as the theoretic base;the deep structure of culture is the analytical background and some of Obama's remarks and speeches given informal occasions are taken as analyzed examples,from which the essential role of the deep structure of culture is emphasized and focused in cross-cultural communication.

A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of the Chinese Translation of Obama's Speech at the First Meeting of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the United States and China——Through the Lens of Reiss' s Text Type Theory

According to Reiss’s Text Type theory,a key part of the functionalist approach in translation studies,the source text can be assigned to a text type and to a genre.In making this assignment,the translator can decide on the hierarchy of postulates which has to be observed during target-text production(Mona,2005).This essay intends to conduct a linguistic and stylistic analysis of the Chinese translation of Obama’s speech to explore the general approach of the translator(if there is one),by comparing the respective results of the two analyses from the perspective of Katharina Reiss’s Text Type theory.In doing so,critical judgments will accordingly be made as to whether such an approach is justifiable or not.

Obama’s China Policy

Some differences might appear, but the framework of Sino-U.S. relations will not change after President Barack Obama’s inauguration

A Comparative Study on Obama's Speeches from the Perspective of Interpersonal Function

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 Function.The author finds that mood,modality and personal pronouns are the major language means used to realize the interpersonal function;in his two speeches,Obama makes different choices of those resources,and different choices indicate different attitudes and intentions.

Characteristics of Obama Administration's Nuclear Security Diplomacy and a Future Trend

Nuclear security diplomacy is one of the composition of Obama’s diplomacy with most special characteristics.The United States initiates from the perspective of nuclear security,an originally marginal issue,actively builds momentum,mobilizes multilateral diplomacy and major countries diplomacy,has not only improved the global nuclear security situation,reduced the risks of nuclear

From Strategic Ambiguity to Strategic Clarity——Obama Administration’s Global Strategic Adjustments and China-U.S.Relations

Since the end of the Cold War,the United States has turned out to be the sole world superpower and possessed the unmatched power,and its international status and security situation reached the best period in its history.Although the U.S.power has declined relatively,its advantages have not changed substantially.The advantages of the U.S.power determine the essence of the U.S.global strategy,and since the end of the Cold War remains almost intact,which is committed to maintenance of the U.S.hegemony,including 3 core goals:maintaining security,expanding economy and promoting democracy.Since the end of the Cold War,all U.S.presidents have adhered to this hegemonic strategy while making some major adjustments,with some changing expressions and the priorities of the strategic goals.It should be pointed out that there is an important and possibly dangerous trend in the adjustments,,which is the gradual disappearance of strategic flexibility and strategic ambiguity.In other words,these global strategic adjustments after the Cold War have been increasingly focusing on China and the Asia-Pacific region.This trend is likely to continue in the second term of President Obama and will affect the development of China-U.S.relations to a large extent.

奥巴马总统就职演说中的修辞诉诸及典故分析

This paper probes into the rhetoric and references aspects in Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address. The rhetoric part consists of Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle:ethos,logos and pathos. It describes how a speaker uses "ethos" to establish their bona fides,"logos" to make the argument logically and "pathos" to manipulate emotion. The references part focuses on seven allusions that are referred to in the Inaugural Address.