Abstract

Briefly, English public speeches are now very common. Public speaking is a very popular art that everyone can participate. The language in speech presents the characteristics of speakers and a language form between spoken language and written language. Meanwhile, the Internet has become a very important tool for people to search information. Public speaking began to record as short videos and upload on the Internet. So many famous speeches can be seen and learned on the Internet, and some on-line speeches programs become very popular.

TED speeches invites different kinds of people to give speech to the public, and the video of the speeches will put on Ted’s official websites. The speeches in TED are 5mins to 20mins long and audience can easily understand by the subtitle given by TED. So it also becomes a very popular educational resource because of its topic and speakers’ speech skills. To do a stylistic analysis can help people understand better and deeper.

Here in this paper, using Do Schools Kill Creativity as an example, I make the stylistic analysis of its speech content and try to find out how it can help the English educators and English learners.

Keywords: stylistic analysis; TED speech; implication

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

I. Introduction-1

1.2 Research Purpose-1

1.3 Research Significance-1

1.4 Framework of the paper-2

II. Literature Review-3

2.1 Notion of public speech-3

2.2 The previous studies of stylistic analysis of public speech-3

2.3 The previous Studies of TED speeches-4

2.4 Conclusion-5

III. Methodology-5

3.1 Research Questions-6

3.2 Research Methods-6

VI. Results-6

4.1 The Rhetorical Features Analysis-7

4.2 The Lexical Analysis-9

4.3 The Syntactic Feature Analysis-11

V. Conclusion-12

5.1 Findings-13

5.2 Suggestions-13

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