スピーチにおける文体特徴の一考察(その二) : Jesse Jackson (1988)とNelson Mandela (1990)の場合

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An attempt has been made in this paper to consider two political speeches delivered by Jesse Jackson (1988), an African-American charismatic preacher, and Nelson Mandela (1990), a South African worldwide symbol of resistance to Apartheid, in terms of stylistic features such as 1) usage of direct speech, 2) emphatically repetitive uses of phrases, 3) uses of heavily equipped noun phrases, and 4) sentence structures (eg. simple, compound, complex, and mixed sentences). Examples of free direct speech can be found in Jackson (1988) with emphatically repetitive phrases (eg. "Don't give up," "Don't surrender") for encouraging those who are in despair due to various reasons, which seem to make Jackson (1988) vivid and passionate. Mandela (1990), on the other hand, which was made twenty-seven years after he was imprisoned for being accused of treason, quotes in its conclusion a certain moving passage made in his past speech (1964), giving a suggestively moving resonance among us. We propose in this paper to call such a kind of quotation "'diachronic' direct speech." Moreover, comparatively many heavily equipped noun phrases which can be found in Mandela (1990) seem to be closely related to the static tone rather than dynamic one in the whole speech. Both of the speeches dominantly have simple sentences, the implication of which is not fully discussed in this paper.
2006-03-31