The Persuasive Power of you in Public Speeches.docVIP

The Persuasive Power of you in Public Speeches 　　【Abstract】One of the features of the public speech is to move and persuade the audience into accepting the speaker’s viewpoints. This article focuses on investigating how a purposeful choice of pronoun you in a specific context can help the achievements of persuasive power in public speeches. 　　【Keyword】persuasion； public speech； you 　　Introduction 　　Persuasion is the process by which a speaker gets the audience to think or believe what he does or to get the listeners to do certain things. The speaker tries to either reinforce or change the