Analysis of a speech

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in all, the speaker uses this speech in order to convince the audience of (...). To underline his intention he uses a lot of positivel negative (...) L NKI N G W 0 R DS In addition, additionally, furthermore, besides, on top of this, moreover-außerdem despite of, however, in spite of-trotz/dem although obwohl whereas wohingegen. on the contrary-im Gegenteil in contrast to-im Gegensatz zu undoubtedly-zweifellos in fact tatsächlich for instance beispielsweise including-dazu gehören namely nämlich thus-daher therefore=deshalb consequently-folglich. as a result-demzufolge previous to-vorherig VERBS expound-darlegen clarify=klarmachen criticise-kritisieren enumerate aufzählen complain-sích beschweren call for sth. etw. verlangen claim/state behaupten argue argumentiert introduce einführen inform-informieren doubt-zweifeln affect beeinflussen confirm-bestätigen differentiate differenzieren display-zeigen disprove=widerlegen elaborate-näher ausführen enhance-verstärken exhibit-zeigen facilitate erleichtern identify-identifizieren illustrate veranschaulichen indicate-zeigen magnify-vergrößern neglect-vernachlässigen STYLISTIC Stylistic device alliteration (bold,bright and beautiful anaphora (I didn't like his hairstyle. I didn't want to tell him.) antithesis (a fire-and-ice relationship) enumeration (old,grey,suave,majestic) hyperbole (an absolutely fantastic book) irony (Well, that was clear! Now it's broken parallelism (It's a great for me, for you, for everyone) personification (Huge cities never sleep) repetition ("March for your rights!"he cried, and we marched and marched) rhetorical question (Wouldn't we all like holiday?) metaphor (...like a bull in china shops. She's a little monkey.) synecdoche (I need a new set of wheels. (-a car) accumulation (He came,saw, fought and won) DEVICES function -to convey auditory images -to draw attention to key words/important aspects -to increase intensity -to stress the main point -to increase intensity -to emphasize important aspects/ major arguments -repetition makes the line memorable -to produce an effective contrast -to strengthen an argument -makes a sentence more memorable -to make the audience aware of the extent of the problem -to emphasize the problem -creates an impression on the minds of the listeners -easy to convey the message -to highlight a fact -to emphasize a feeling -produce humorous effect -to blame -to draw attention to its actual meaning -indirect criticsm -helps make an idea or argument clear and easy to remember -shows that each repeated structure is of equal importance -gives some similarity with human beings -simplify matters by reducing complexity -makes the speech more vivid, -helps to emphasize a point -makes a speech easier to follow -makes a point more memorable -to involve the audience -stimulate the audience to think about it -to bring liveliness into a speech -to illustrate and simplify -creates connection and empathy -makes the listener understand something in a deeper level -to emphasize specific aspects of the thing or person that the synecdoche represents -to minimize the importance of the thng itself -to make the language livelier ANALYSIS Introduction: -Introductury sentence (author, title, text type, year, place of publication, topic, intention) -position of the speaker (e.g. president or member of a protest movement) -occasion (e.g. election campaign, demonstration or political debate) -audience (e.g. mass audience or a limited group of people) -genre and type (e.g. presidential address to the nationor speech at a demonstration. -central claim: speaker's aim and strategy to achieve that aim set out what to expect to find in your analysis overall message mention title and author Formulierungshilfen: -In the following I want to analyze how (...) attempts to convince the audience in her/his (...) speech of the (...) by using different linguistic techniques meant to (...) -The analysis will focus on how (...) employes different rhetorical devices and strategies like (...) to (...) -The central message of the speech is (...) -The speaker gives the speech during (...) in the year (...) -The speech is made to an audience of (...) Main part: 1) summarize the content of the speech ICAL -The speaker addresses the topic of (...) -His/Her purpose it to persuade/convince the audience for (...) -In his/her "(...) Speech", given on (...) on (...) in (..), (...) addresses the (...) with one important message: (..) -The title and the date when the speech was given underline the occasion of the speech. It's the (...)'s response to (...) 2) structure of argumentation: which arguments he/she uses and what are the examples? find out, what the main hesis is how is the structure of the argumentation what is the speaker's intention? 3) Sprachliche Analyse: substantiate the claim you made in the introduction by referring to different linguistic tools stylistic devices and their function kind of language/register (formal, informal and literary) tone: is the general mood, feeling or attitude of the speaker (humorous/ironic/serious/critical/positive tone style: the choice of tone, grammar and narrative techniques kind of sentences (complex/simple) choice of words •Use of tenses 4) Kontakt zum Publikum: use of personal pronouns (we, you, us) Formulierungshilfen: The language: -makes use of (...) language -the text is written in (...) language -has simple/complex sentences SPEECH The text: -the (...) section/paragraph deals with/is about (...) -to look at the form/structure of the text -in the (...) paragraph, it becomes clear that (...) Choice of words: -uses emotive adjectives/adverbs that (..) -to appeal to the reader's emotions -to associate (...) with positive/negative words such as (...) in order to (...). -the (...) connotations of words like (...) are meant to make the reader (...) Stylistic device use of personal pronouns (we,you,us) ellipsis (Today... I have decided to quit my job) euphemism ("He passes away" for "he died") function -to involve the listeners -speaker presumes that the audience supports his point of view -makes it more personal -used to avoid repetition but also used for artistic effect -to create a pause to effect -to give positive appearances to negative events