An Analysis of the Stylistic Devices in I Have a Dream 《我有一个梦》的文体分析.docVIP

An Analysis of the Stylistic Devices in I Have a Dream Submitted to the School of Further Education in Partial Fulfillment to the Requirements for Graduation of Junior College in English Under the Supervision of (Associate) Professor Hu Zuoyou June, 2011 Acknowledgements I gratefully acknowledge all those people who have assisted me in the process of completing my graduation thesis. Without their help, this thesis would have been impossible. First and foremost, I would like to express my great appreciation to my supervisor, Mr. Li , who has followed my toils with invariable kindness and patience, reading as well as correcting this dissertation at different stages of its conception, giving me advice instructive and constructive in addition to valuable encouragement. Finally, thanks go to my classmates and my dearest parents, who in one way or another have given me help and encouragement during my work on this thesis. I Have a Dream Abstract: On the base of the definition of stylistics, this thesis gives a detailed analysis of some the of stylistic devices used in the famous speech by the well-known American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and then probes into the stylistic characteristics of speech as a style. Key words: Stylistics, Stylistic devices, analysis, speech.《我有一个梦》的文体分析 摘 要：本文首先阐述了文体学的定义，并在此基础上对对美国著名黑人领袖马丁. 路德.金的著名演讲《我有一个梦》中所使用的文体手段进行了详尽的分析，进而对演讲文体的风格进行了简要的论述。 关键词：文体学；文体手段；分析；演讲Contents Acknowledgements i Abstract ii Key Words ii 摘要 iii 关键词 iii Conte nts iv Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Related Information of the Speech I HAVE A DREAM and Its Author 2 Chapter Three A Stylistic Analysis of the Speech (An analysis of some of the stylistic devices used in the speech) 3 3.1 Repetition: 3 3.2 Use of Parallelism 5 3.2.1parallel nouns 5 3.2.2Parallel noun phrases 6 3.2.3Parallel infinitive phrases…………………………………………………………6 3.2.4Parallel prepositional phrases……………………………………………………..7 3.3Use of Simil