As a unique discourse genre,public speaking plays an important role in conveying the speaker’s position,gaining consensus of public opinion,even initiating a call and arousing the audience’s actions.Based on a comme...As a unique discourse genre,public speaking plays an important role in conveying the speaker’s position,gaining consensus of public opinion,even initiating a call and arousing the audience’s actions.Based on a commencement speech from the School of Medicine of Tsinghua university,this paper identifies four types of thematic progression pattern,their use and discourse features,the speech purpose and its gist,the distribution of different types of thematic progression pattern within the framework of the Theme-Rheme progression pattern of Systemic Functional Linguistics.By doing so,the speaker’s state position,alma mater position and her individual position are conveyed respectively and it is of significance to provide reference for the organization method of speech discourse during the special epidemic period.展开更多
The commencement speech becomes pivotal because it inspires,educates,and enlightens the graduates.Therefore,it is of great value to make a study on the speeches.This article analyzes two commencement speeches between ...The commencement speech becomes pivotal because it inspires,educates,and enlightens the graduates.Therefore,it is of great value to make a study on the speeches.This article analyzes two commencement speeches between China and America from the perspective of rhetoric,namely Aristotle’s appeals as the well as deductive and inductive method of reasoning and finds out that the similarities and differences of those two speeches concerning Aristotle’s appeals as the well as deductive and inductive method of reasoning.展开更多
基金This paper is funded by the Shanxi Soft Science Program entitled“Research on College Talents Training Mode of ESP Teaching for the Economic Transformation and Development of Shanxi Province”(2019041008-5).
文摘As a unique discourse genre,public speaking plays an important role in conveying the speaker’s position,gaining consensus of public opinion,even initiating a call and arousing the audience’s actions.Based on a commencement speech from the School of Medicine of Tsinghua university,this paper identifies four types of thematic progression pattern,their use and discourse features,the speech purpose and its gist,the distribution of different types of thematic progression pattern within the framework of the Theme-Rheme progression pattern of Systemic Functional Linguistics.By doing so,the speaker’s state position,alma mater position and her individual position are conveyed respectively and it is of significance to provide reference for the organization method of speech discourse during the special epidemic period.
文摘The commencement speech becomes pivotal because it inspires,educates,and enlightens the graduates.Therefore,it is of great value to make a study on the speeches.This article analyzes two commencement speeches between China and America from the perspective of rhetoric,namely Aristotle’s appeals as the well as deductive and inductive method of reasoning and finds out that the similarities and differences of those two speeches concerning Aristotle’s appeals as the well as deductive and inductive method of reasoning.
