英语政治演讲中的语气人际功能研究.pdfVIP

万方数据 A Study on Interpersonal Function of Mood in English Political Speeches A Dissertation Submitted for the Degree of Master Candidate：Li Ying Supervisor：Prof. Wang Hongxiao Chang’an University, Xi’an, China 万方数据 万方数据 万方数据 万方数据 Abstract As the sub-component of public speech, political speech is considered as an important tool to establish the identity of the government and put forward the political beliefs and policies. Based on Halliday’s model of interpersonal function, the present study intends to make a detail analysis on mood element and mood type in English political speeches. Twenty English political speeches are selected as corpus in this study, including inaugural address, presidential campaign speech, president nomination acceptance speech, presidential farewell speech, etc. Under the framework of Halliday’s interpersonal function, both qualitative and quantitative methods are adopted to make a analysis of English political speeches from two aspects: mood element and mood type. The distribution of the Subject and the Finite are discussed from the perspective of mood element. The frequency and percentage of declarative mood, imperative mood and interrogative mood are analyzed in terms of mood type. It can be found that the personal pronoun “we” is most preferred in terms of the Subject. When it comes to the Finite, the temporal operators of present and the median value modal operators take the dominant proportion. In addition, the modal operators such as “will”, “can”, “must”