The Speech Community Peter L. Patrick Dept. of Language and Linguistics University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom Email: patrickp@essex.ac.uk http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/ This article will appear in JK Chambers‚ P Trudgill & N Schilling-Estes (eds.)‚ Handbook of language variation and change. Oxford: Blackwell. ABSTRACT: empirical linguistics‚ is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. This paper traces its history
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Countrymen" speech. This speech is delivered right after the assassination of Julius Caesar‚ and is the second memorial speech spoken to the Roman plebeians‚ Brutus’ being the first. It is a subtle entreaty to embolden the citizen’s of Rome to avenge Caesar’s death‚ revealing Mark Anthony’s true repugnance toward the conspirators because of what he sees as their murder of Caesar‚ and what they see as a heroic deed. A moving speech‚ the impact of the “Friends‚ Romans‚ Countrymen” speech was so powerful
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Heather Mac Donald had given a speech on the black lives matter movement in which some would consider to be “powerful.” She had given this speech at Hillsdale college on April 27th‚ 2016 for the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. As she had given her speech‚ throughout it she had delivered a variety of evidence and statistics. However‚ while she was giving her speech of the evidence she collected‚ consequently the diction she had used was like an insult to the black community. The vocabulary she
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Franklin Roosevelt’s speech was presented on December 8‚ 1941 following soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii. It was presented in front of congress in order to explain the tragic events of the previous days atrocity‚ as well as create a declaration of war against Japan. Roosevelt’s speech triggered numerous emotions in his audience. However‚ it was also logical‚ comforting‚ and helped ensure our nation that we will rebuild following our tragic downfall. Roosevelt clearly addresses
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the people‚ in order to form a more perfect union”1 - On March the 18th 2008 Barack Obama opened his speech on race‚ in Philadelphia‚ with this sentence. From the open sentence you can see that this speech isn’t any speech‚ perform by any orator. It’s a speech with a main message‚ performed for the people‚ to creates a brighter future for all the American people and to change history. Obama’s speech on race was a part of his campaign while he was running for the presidential election in 2009. He speaks
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What were the speaker’s goals of the speech? (Recall the three main goals that we discussed in class). To pose a question for society and try to answer it in the best way he can but also in hopes for someone to find an exact answer one day‚ also to reignite the people to think more about space and future interactions with our people or other beings. b. Discuss the historical or societal context in which this speech falls. For example‚ Dr. King’s speech was delivered during a time when marginalized
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Chanell Loochkartt Speech 1 Dr. Grau November 22‚ 2016 Analyzing a Speech Our forty-fourth President Barack Hussein Obama is known to be one of the most profound‚ intelligent‚ and influential speaker in the United States. With confidence Barack Obama has always shown a sense of leadership which is the key to attracting and persuading his audience. In order to make certain that his audience is left with a positive impression and a sense of aspiration for those who are citizens of the United States
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Sputnik‚ into space on October 4‚ 1957‚ commencing the Space Race; then they continued by launching Yuri Gagarin‚ making him the first person to orbit Earth” (FactCite). About five years later‚ on September 12‚ 1962‚ President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University in Houston‚ Texas. Kennedy wanted to rally the audience to support NASA’s Apollo Program. This program’s sole purpose was to send a man to the moon in the next decade. If the president had kept this mission a secret‚ the American
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Frederick Douglass was invited by the Rochester Ladies Antislavery society‚ to deliver a speech. He delivered his speech on July 5th‚ 1852‚ at Corinthian Hall in Rochester‚ New York. In Douglass’s speech‚ he established himself to the audience. He praised their importance of the occasion before them and claims to be humble‚ yet he shrunk with fear and nervousness. Although he deceives his audience‚ His use of rhetoric‚ religious‚ and historic statements‚ achieves common ground for his argument and
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his Pearl Harbor speech to reassure and inform his audience. In his speech FDR creates the tones of informative and reassurance by using repetition. Roosevelt only uses these two different tones and shifts his tone in the middle of the speech. He begins the speech informing the people what has happened and then then ends by reasurring the American people everything will be ok. The change in tone helps make the article sound less depressing and more reassuring. FDR starts this speech with an informative
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