An Analysis of the Language Features of Barack Obama's Inaugural Speeches

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 sentences,parallelism,rhetorical question,alliteration,hyperbole,simile,metaphor and so on.

Probing the Linguistic and Rhetorical Features of English Speeches

English speech is a discourse delivered at an assembly or on formal occasions. As a variety of the English language, English speech has a unique presentation of its own. This paper, as its title indicates, is to analyze and probe the linguistic and rhetorical features of famous English speeches with a view to improving the ability to appreciate English speeches on the part of Chinese learners of English.

Features of E-C Public Speech Interpreting: A Case Study of the Interpretation of Obama's Speeches

This paper is trying to analyze the E-C interpreting scripts of Inaugural Address, Remarks on Winning the Nobel Prize and Shanghai Speech by the 44th president of United States Barack Obama with a comparative method based on data collected. The analysis will be employed on the lexical, syntactic as well as rhetorical level and the features of E-C public speech interpreting will be achieved accordingly. The features may serve as reference for the interpreters in their interpretation practice in order to improve the interpretation effects.

Research on the Chinese Translation of English Inspirational Speeches on Campus in USA:A Skopos Approach

A great inspirational speech has power.Too often,people abandon their dreams due to various setbacks.After some time,their beliefs in themselves vanish and remain dormant until something can get them going again.Inspirational speeches have the power to do just that,waking up their beliefs and getting them motivated again.This paper is a study of the Chinese translation of English inspirational speeches on campus in USA under the framework of Skopos Theory and also can be a guide for those who are devoted to translating English inspirational speeches into Chinese.It is helpful for them to achieve an accurate,influent and felicitous translation by applying appropriate translation strategies.Before starting the research,eighteen English inspirational speeches in Inspirational Speeches on Campus in USA by Wang Ruize are selected as ST.

On the Tone of Finality in Famous Successful Speeches

The public speech skill consists of cultural virtue,knowledge accumulation,psychological quality,logical thinking,thinking capacity and language expression.It is a kind of art that speakers achieve the success through their own sound.In dealing with various English speeches,Chinese students are always influenced by the Chinese way of speech delivery,adopting the style of it,especially its tone of finality.After collecting,arranging and learning relevant material,I attaches great importance to the tone of finality in famous English speeches.They show some rules and regulations,such as the return to the middle pitch,the unstable change of stress and the final rising and falling tone.This paper begins with a brief introduction to what the tone of finality is and three famous English speeches in different areas are provided as study cases with the PRAAT pictures and their relevant analysis.And then the comparison will be made among these three speeches from aspects of pitch,length and weight,in the hope of concluding similarities in the tone of finality of these three cases.

Narrative Framing on C- E Translation of President Xi's Diplomatic Speeches

Narratives are"the everyday stories we live by"(Baker, 2006:3), they are featured by inter-media, inter-disciplines and inter-genres and play key role in cross-cultural communication. Narratives not only represent reality, but constitute reality by"accentuating, undermining or modifying aspects of the narrative(s) encoded in the source text or utterance"(Baker, 2006:5) in a way to intensify or weaken international political conflict, and in doing so participate in shaping social reality. The narrative account on translation raised up by Mona Baker"may constitute yet another turning point in translation studies"(Fan, 2009: 57), because she reveals that translation not only closely connects politics, but also creates politics(Baker, 2011:6). This provides a theoretical basis for us to discuss how translation shapes political speeches from the perspective of narration.Framing is what makes narratives takes into effective. The thesis will interpret translation of President Xi's diplomatic speeches from Baker's narrative account by the following framing means: labeling and repositioning of participants. It analyzes how President Xi's diplomatic speeches serves for enhancing consensus and reducing conflicts. It is hoped that the thesis will offer some suggestions on building a narrative system with Chinese characteristics and establishing more effective and skilled strategies for international communication.

A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and American Leaders' Inaugural Speeches

This paper analyzing Chinese leader Xi Jinping's and American leader Obama's inaugurate speeches, aiming to discover the underlying culture patterns(individualism-collectivism; power distance; time orientation) hidden behind languages features.This approach towards political discourse has the effect of breaking out from the restricted analytic framework and adding cultural elements and helps leader develop a high awareness of the culture meaning hidden in such kind of political discourses.

Conceptual Metaphors in Chinese Political Speeches——A Case Study of Xi Jinping's 2016 New Year Address

As a sort of cognitive means and thinking mode,conceptual metaphor is widely applied to political discourses.Statesmen often publicize their political thoughts by using conceptual metaphors in their political discourses so that the audience can understand their political ideas easily.Based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory,this paper aims to analyze the conceptual metaphors in Xi Jinping's 2016 New Year address so as to summarize the types,functions and significance of conceptual metaphors in Chinese political discourses,in the hope of helping readers interpret political speeches better.

The Projection of China’s National Image in President Xi Jinping’s Speeches

In the 21st century, soft power has become an important element to evaluate a nation’s comprehensive strength. Meanwhile, as an indispensable part of soft power, national image receives more and more attention on the political stage. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speeches have unique features and greatly reflect positive national images of China, many scholars start to analyze them from diversified perspectives. Based on Du Bois’ theory of “the Stance Triangle” and the Indexicality Principle, taking President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation for example, this paper expounds how President Xi achieves the evaluation, position, and alignment between the subject and object by means of overt labeling, implicature and presupposition, covert evaluation statement, and ideology-laden linguistic structure, in order to establish China’s national image. Through the analysis, the author intends to figure out how national leaders use various persuasive methods to achieve their political purpose. And the author hopes this thesis can provide a new perspective for further analysis on national leaders’ speeches.

Cultural Pattern of Rhetorical Move in Indonesian Students＇ Speeches

In analysing a speech genre, genre analysis is applied. Genre analysis is a recent trend in discourse analysis. It combines socio-cultural and psycholinguistic aspect of text construction and interpretation. This analysis aims to show what extent surface linguistic forms align with given standardized communicative events. To construct a text, a speaker should master its schematic structure. The schematic structure consists of organizing the rhetoric. It covers the macro-stages which can be classified into introductory stage, body stage, and concluding stage. The rhetorical organization/structure （micro moves） of a speech genre includes ＂opening marker＂, ＂gambit＂, ＂narration＂, and ＂marker＂ in the introductory stage; ＂claim＂, ＂confutation＂, ＂confirmation＂, and ＂concession＂ in the body stage; ＂marker＂, ＂appeal/recommendation＂, and a closing in the body stage. By studying the schematic structure, it can be recognized how the students construct the genre, whether they follow the linear pattern offered or their construction of speech is influenced by their native cultural way of thinking. In sequencing the micro moves, the students followed the sequence offered in the framework of speech genre. Although there was a slight difference in sequencing the moves, in general the students have conformed to the proposed sequence. The variety of sequencing the moves was prompted by the native language and cultural background （Javanese and Chinese）. Since rhetorical organization varies from culture to culotte, it can be tolerated that the students have a variety in sequencing the moves.

Probing Personal Pronouns in English Speeches to Actuate

Professor Cheryl Hamilton of American Tarrant County divided speeches into two types： One is informative speeches, and the other is persuasive speeches. It is obvious that the speech to actuate should be more inspired and motive than the speech to convince. So the language of the speech to actuate should have some special features. Personal pronoun is one of the basic elements of language. It is widely used in our daily speaking, and for a speaker, it is also an effective way to control the emotion of listeners. Different personal pronouns have different effects in a speech, and this thesis has analyzed the effects of personal pronouns in the speech to actuate respectively with the examples of “I Have a Dream” made by Martin Luther King and “My Education, My Future” made by Barack Hussein Obama Jr., the president of America. From the analysis, we can see the concrete role every pronoun played in the speeches of different styles, and how it impacts the success of a speech. Such an analysis and probe leads to a better understanding on the art of English speaking, which can help the learners of English make these skills in their charge.

A Study of Parallelism in English Speeches

Every public speaker prepares his or her public speech meticulously.Witty remarks emerge in an endless stream,and demonstrate the rhetoric beauty of English to a great extent.Almost every speaker employs parallelism in his or her public speeches.The present paper is intended to study the concept,the classification and the significance of parallelism in English.

A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Political SpeechesBased on Systematic Functional Grammar

Systematic Functional Grammar always acts as one of the most influential linguistic schools.Though much work about discourse analysis has been done before,little attention has been paid to the specific type of discourse—political speeches.For ideational function,six processes of transitivity system and voice are involved.In terms of interpersonal function,contrastive studies are done on the basis of mood and modality.The comparisons reveal that there are remarkable differences as well similarities between the two groups of political discourses.The differences could be explained by different cultural backgrounds and the similarities come from common features of political speeches.It is expected that the studies could supply us with theoretical and practical implications about language teaching and translation practice.

Discourse Analysis of Political Speeches from the Perspective of Functional Linguistics

Language is the primary tool of human communication,speech is the collective reflection of language art,and dis course analysis is a means to appreciate the language arts.This paper analyzes the entire discourse of Chinese political leader's speech at Cambridge University from different aspects by using discourse analysis tools,to show the beauty of words and the force of language.

An Analysis on Gender Differences in Public Speeches of Obama and Hillary

In recent years,people pay more and more attention to the connection between gender and language.Due to some social reasons and differences in body structure,gender differences no doubt exist.But gender differences in language have changed a little in modern society due to women's elevation of social status and their desire of realizing self-value.In this paper gender differences reflected in modern language hope to be found out on the basis of two public speeches of Hillary and Obama.

CONCURRENT SPEECHES SEPARATION USING WRAPPED DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM

This letter proposes a new method for concurrent voiced speech separation. Firstly the Wrapped Discrete Fourier Transform (WDFT) is used to decompose the harmonic spectra of the mixed speeches. Then the individual speech is reconstructed by using the sinusoidal speech model. By taking advantage of the non-uniform frequency resolution of WDFT, harmonic spectra parameters can be estimated and separated accurately. Experimental results on mixed vowels separation show that the proposed method can recover the original speeches effectively.

On the Application of TED Speeches Into Flipped Learning for English Learners Taking the TED Speeches With the Keyword ＂Transportation＂ as an Example

Flipped learning is a reversal of the traditional teaching strategy, which has changed the timing of teacher＇s lectures and homework. In this revolutionary situation, the appropriateness of the before-class videos and other materials and the arrangement of class in the classroom play an important role in the fulfillment of application of the materials. Classical TED speeches are the excellent options for English language learners＇ flipped learning. This paper tends to make a case study of the application of TED speeches into flipped learning, taking the speeches with the keyword ＂transportation＂ as an example.

The Correct Use of English Teachers' in-class Evaluative Speeches

Teachers' in-class evaluative speech is an indispensable part in English language teaching and also a is an indispensable and a weak point in English teaching. When using in-class evaluative speeches, the teacher made mistakes with a high frequency and failed to reach the purpose of it. This study attempts to investigate and analyze the meaning of teachers' in- class evaluative speeches, discusses some of the problems existing in teachers' evaluation in English classroom teaching and proposes countermeasures to improve the quality of it. It aims at causing the teachers' attention and correcting the mistakes of using inclass evaluative speeches.

Aristotle's Ethos Based on Analyses of English Speeches

Aristotle's traditional rhetoric theory is of great value to the study of language. This paper analyses English speeches from the perspective of ethos and sees how speakers apply ethos to reach the purpose of persuading.

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.