2012女王圣诞演讲文体分析 英文.docx

A Brief Stylistic Analysis of the Christmas Broadcast 2012As a tradition, the Queen of the Great Britain delivered a speech on Dec.25, 2012. She reviewed important things happened the whole year and wished everyone a happy Christmas. Actually we can find a lot of stylistic features. The exploration will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological,graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.At the phonological levelTo speak in appropriate terms, the queen speaks in moderate tempo, not too slowly nor too fast. She speaks so smoothly that almost the whole speech shares the same speed.These features are related to her status. As a queen, she should behavedecently and elegantly. So, it is no wonder that we cannot find overexcitement in the speech which is even delivered on Christmas day.Secondly, the speech was characterized by many silent pauses. Each pause signals the end of a thought unit.For example, after talking about the Diamond Jubilee, she pauses. It gives the audience time to remind what she has said and to concentrate on what she will say.At the graghological levelBefore the speech, we see symphony orchestra play.It creates a dignified atmosphere of the speech. The shots switch from the queen and the occasion she mentions during the speech. It can remind the audience of the scene of theevent. Alsoit plays the carol to fit the speech before and after the queen quotes the carol. The speech is divided into many short paragraphs in one conspicuous praphological marker. There are 14 paragraphs, and many of them just contain one or two sentences.The function is that the queen can say a lot of things briefly. For example, she uses three short paragraphs to talk about the Olympic Games. She mentions the Olympic flame, the athletes and the army of volunteers, which is so comprehensive.At the lexical levelThe words she uses are quite formal and standard, but almost all of them are not difficult to understand. For example, tribute, enormous, tremendou