文体学学习心得astylisticanalysisofthespeechihaveadreamcourse:englishstylisticsandrhetoriclecturer:zhangxuhongcredit:2timeofassignedon28/11/2013timeofsubmission:19/12/2013studentno:2010010225name:杜敏class:(grade2001)class1englishdept,harbinnormaluniv.从文体学的角度分析演讲稿《我有一个梦》杜敏摘要。本文根据文体学理论从文体手段角度试图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,作者在此基础上进而对演讲文体的风格进行了简要的论述。本研究对演讲稿的文体风格的选用具有启示作用。关键词:文体学;文体学理论;文体手段;文体的风格;分析;演讲astylisticanalysisofthespeechihaveadreamduminabstract:onthebaseofthedefinitionofstylistics,thisthesisgivesadetailedanalysisofsometheofstylisticdevicesusedinthefamousspeechbythewell-knownamericancivilrightsmovementleadermartinlutherking,jr.,andthenprobesintothestylisticcharacteristicsofspeechasastyle.keywords:stylistics,stylisticdevices,analysis,speech.introductionasaninterdisciplinaryfieldofstudy,stylisticspromisestoofferusefulinsightsintoliterarycriticismandtheteachingofliteraturewithitsexplicitaimsandeffectivetechniques.itisveryusefulintheanalysisofvariousstylesofwriting.inthisthesis,theauthortriestoofferastylisti第1页共8页canalysisofthefamousspeechbymartinlutherking,jr.ihaveadream.1.introduction:definitionofstylisticsandstylisticanalysisasfarasthedefinitionofstylisticsisconcerneddifferentscholarsdefinethebranchofstudyindifferentways.walesdefinesstylisticssimplyas“thestudyofstyle”(1989:437),whilewiddowsonprovidesamoreinformativedefinitionas“thestudyofliterarydiscoursefromalinguisticorientation”andtakes“aviewthatwhatdistinguishesstylisticsfromliterarycriticismontheonehandandlinguisticsontheotheristhatitisessentiallyameansoflinkingthetwo”(1975:3).leechholdsasimilarview.hedefinesstylisticsasthe“studyoftheuseoflanguageinliterature”(1969:1)andconsidersstylisticsa“meeting-groundoflinguisticsandliterarystudy”(1969:2).fromwhatwiddowsonandleechsay,wecanseethatstylisticsisanareaofstudythatstraddlestwodisciplines:literarycriticismandlinguistics.ittakesliterarydiscourse(text)asitsobjectofstudyanduseslinguisticsasameanstothatend.stylisticanalysisisgenerallyconcernedwiththeuniquenessofatext;thatis,whatitisthatispeculiartotheusesoflanguageinaliterarytextfordeliveringthemessage.thisnaturallyinvolvescomparisonsofthelanguageofthetextwiththatusedinconventionaltypesofdiscourse.stylisticiansmayalsowishtocharacterizethestyleofaliterarytextbysystematicallycomparingthelanguageusesinthattextwiththoseinanother.hallidaypointsout,“thetextmaybeseenas"this"incontrastwith"that",withanotherpoemoranothernovel;stylisticsstudiesareessentiallycomparativeinnature…”(1971:341).onthispoints,widdowsonisofthesameopinionashalliday.hesays:“allliteraryappreciationiscomparative,asindeedisarecognitionofstylesingeneral”(1975:84).thus,wemayconcludethatstylisticanalysisisanactivi第2页共8页tythatishighlycomparativeinnature.2.astylisticanalysisofthespeech(ananalysisofsomeofthestylisticdevicesusedinthespeech.martinlutherking"sspeechofaugust28,1963iswidelyregardedasoneofthemostpowerfuleverdeliveredintheunitedstates.althoughthisaddresswasdeliveredorally,itwasreadfromawrittentextcomposedwithgreatcare.itisanexampleofformalenglishwithaconvincingstyle.herearesomeofthestylisticdevices(wh...