奥巴马总统竞选演讲稿修辞学研究
AcknowledgementsFirst and foremost, I would like to express my special and sincere gratitude to my
长期以来
supervisor Zhang Jisheng, who has been taking care of my academic study through
the past three years and has always enlightened me with his valuable insights. His
invaluable advice, constant encouragement and thoughtful comments at every stage of
the project have helped greatly to shape this thesis My gratitude also goes to the teachers of the English Department of Foreign Languages School of ECNU, especially Professor Shan Junyi, who informative
inspiring lectures benefit me greatly in the process of the thesis writing. It is the
knowledge they have imparted to me that leads to my academic interest in my studies电影后天
and provides a sound foundation for my thesis My heartfelt thanks are also due to my friends and my parents. Without their love and support, this thesis would not have been possible i Abstract
This thesis aims to provide a rhetorical analysis of Obam a’s presidential campaign
英语四六级报名speeches. In the past two years, Barack Obama has caught the eyes all over the worldHis eloquence in public speeches is often compared with that of the great orators such
as President Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Obama’s succ ess can be attributed to
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many factors, of which the rhetorical factor can by no means be omitted. He is a
proficient master of both the traditional and modern rhetorical techniques. This thesis
bas its theory on Aristotle’s three artistic proofs, name ly the ethical appeal ethos,下午好日语>雅思简介
the pathetical appeal pathos and the logical appeal logos. The application analysis
of the three appeals will be conducted both qualitatively and quantitatively, as some
analysis involves computer-bad counting. The analyzed examples are all lected
from the ten speeches that the author deems to be the most reprentative. In the
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cond half of the thesis, the author will analyze the application
of rhetorical devices
figures of speech and attempt to explain how the figures of speech help Obama
achieve the effects of ethos, pathos and logos. In the thesis, all the rhetorical devices
are generalized into roughly three categories: lexical devices, syntactical devices and
phonetic devices. Also in the thesis, a rhetorical explanation is suggested to explain
Obama’s declining approval rating
本能2致命诱惑In the thesis, Chapter one is on the purpo, organization and rearch questions
of the prent study. Chapter two involves the literature review which mainly deals
with the rhetorical tradition of American political speeches and reviews the previous
studies on Obama speeches. Chapter three prents the method and data ud in the
thesis. Chapter four goes in details in elaborating the definitions of the three appeals
and how Obama has employed them to in persuasion. Chapter five analyzes the three
categories of figures of speeches and shows how they are helpful in achieving the
effects of ethos, pathos and logos. Chapter six is conclusion, which deals with
Obama’s approval rat ing and other findings as well as the restrictions of the thesisKeywords:Obama speeches; rhetorical analysis; three appeals of persuasion;
figures of speech; approval rating
ii 摘摘摘摘要要要要
本文旨在从修辞学的角度研究奥巴马的总统竞选演讲。在过去的两年中，奥巴马吸引了全世界的目光，他雄辩的演讲征服了亿万听众。人们常常把他和过去
的林肯总统以及马丁?路德?金相提并论。奥巴马的成功因素有很多，但是修辞
的因素功不可没。不管是古典的，还是现代的修辞手法，他都信手拈来，运用自
如。本文研究的理论依据就是亚里士多德的经典修辞理论，即他的三种劝说诉求
手段：品格诉求，情感诉求以及理性诉求。本文采取定性与定量的研究手段，并
采用一定的运算方法统计分析他演讲中的用词频率。并本文中所有研究语料都来
自作者精选的十篇最具代表性的奥巴马演讲稿。在文章的后半部分，作者具体研
究分析了修辞格在奥巴马演讲中的运用，并初步探究了修辞格的运用对于奥巴马
实现亚里士多德三诉求的作用。在本文的研究中，修辞格被分成语义层面，句子
层面以及语音层面三个大类。
英语背单词软件本研究全文分为六个部分。第一章是介绍部分，讲了本次研究的目的，意义以及论文的新颖之处。第二章是文献综述，此部分概述了美国政治演讲的传统特
点，回顾了前人关于奥巴马演讲的分析研究。第三章介绍了本研究采取的理论方hack
法以及文中所用的语料及数据来源。第四章和第五章是全文重点部分。第四章详
细阐述了亚里士多德三种诉求的涵义，并用具体实例来分析这三种古典劝服方式
在奥巴马演讲中的运用。第五章进一步研究了奥巴马演讲中采用的各种修辞格,
以及这些修辞格是如何帮助实现三种诉求的。第六章是结论，简要分析了奥巴马
支持率下降与修辞学研究之间的关系以及本论文的其他主要发现及不足之处。
