英语文体学n讲课讲稿.ppt

Scope of Public Speech In terms of field: manager explaining next year’s budget, military officer briefing subordinates, teacher lecturing in class (passing on information), president’s inaugural address/ weekly address on radio (fact and question: reasoning), speech of introduction, presentation, commemorative speech (on special occasion) etc. In terms of functional tenor: informative & persuasive In terms of personal tenor: can be formal, less formal and informal;  In terms of mode: impromptu speech (speech made on the spot), extemporaneous speech (speech with notes or an outline to jog the memory), speech from reciting etc. General features of public speech: a. Persuasive speeches usually take place on formal occasions. They present features of formal written language while exhibiting characteristics of the spoken. b. Public speeches make full use of prosodic and paralinguistic features for expression. c. Public speaking shows the characteristics of the written mode with its highly logical organization of thoughts, closely-knit structure and formal language. Stylistic features of public speech Text structure: It consists of the following elementsa. A short introduction to the main issue or issues concernedb. The declaration of one’s attitude and position in the matter.c. Reasoning, explanationd. conclusion 2) He bounced up and stared at me wild. Then he drops down on his knees, and puts his hands together and says : “ Doan’ hurt me ---don’t ! I hain’t ever done no harm to a ghos’. I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for ‘em. You go en git in de river agin, whah you b’longs, en doan’ do noffin to Ole Jim, ‘at ‘uz awluz yo’ fren.” Well, I warn’t long making him understand I warn’t dead, I was ever go glad to see him. I warn’t lonesome, now. I told him I warn’t afraid of him telling the people I was. I walked along, but he only set there and looked at me; never said nothing. Then I says. “ It’s good daylight. Le’s get