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万方数据 万方数据 学位论文独创性声明 本人所呈交的学位论文是在导师的指导下取得的研究成果。据我所知， 除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本论文不包含其他个人已经发表或撰写过 的研究成果。对本文的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均已在文中作了 明确说明并表示了谢意。 作者签名： 日期： 学位论文使用授权声明 本人授权沈阳师范大学研究生处，将本人硕士学位论文的全部或部分 内容编入有关数据库进行检索；有权保留学位论文并向国家主管部门或其 指定机构送交论文的电子版和纸质版，允许论文被查阅和借阅；有权可以 采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存、汇编学位论文。保密的学位论文 在解密后适用本规定。 作者签名： 日期： Acknowledgements I am greatly indebted to a number of people. Without their help, this thesis would not have been finished. I would like to express my gratitude, appreciation, and thanks to them. Firstly, I am most grateful to my supervisor Sun Ruohong. I owe her special thanks for the reason that her invaluable suggestions, insightful comments and painstaking corrections have contributed a lot to the completion of this thesis. Secondly, sincere thanks go to all the teachers who give me some advice on this thesis. And finally, my genuine thanks must be given to my family and my friends, who provided me with great consolation and support. i Abstract The term “metadiscourse” was put forward by Harris in 1959，and metadiscourse has received increasingly attention recently as a relatively new concept in discourse analysis. Reviewing the empirical study of metadiscourse, it, in general, focuses on the study of written discourse, which is less discussed in public address. Twenty latest Obama?s weekly radio address are selected as a corpus in this thesis. And Hyland?s interpersonal model and classification of metadiscourse proposed by Ken Hyland (2008) is employed. Metediscourse is divided into interactive and interactional dimensions. This thesis aims to find out the distribution and features of metadiscourse as well as how to realize persuasion through ethos, pathos and logos. And in order to deal with the three questions, three ways are used, namely, semi-artificial and semi-automatic, quantitative and qualitative. Aristotle puts forward three methods of persuasion in his book Rhetoric, namely ethos, pathos and logos. Ethos refers to shaping credibility; pathos refers to mov