马丁. 路德.金 《我有一个梦》的文体分析 英语专业毕业论文.doc

1 / 14 《我有一个梦》的文体分析 Abstract: On the base of the definition of stylistics, this thesis gives a detailed analysis of some the of stylistic devices used in the famous speech by the well-known American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and then probes into the stylistic characteristics of speech asa style. Key words: Stylistics, Stylistic devices, analysis, speech. 摘要:本文首先阐述了文体学的定义,《我有一个梦》中所使用的文体手段进行了详尽的分析, 进而对演讲文体的风格进行了简要的论述。关键词:文体学;文体手段;分析;演讲 As an interdisciplinary field of study, stylistics promises to offer useful insights into literary criticism and the teaching of literature with its explicit aims and effective techniques. It is very useful in the analysis of various styles of writing. In this thesis, the author tries to offer a stylistic analysis of the famous speech by Martin Luther king, Have a Dream. 1. Introduction: Definition of Stylistics and Stylistic Analysis As far as the definition of stylistics is concerned different scholars define the branch of study in different ways. Wales defines stylistics simply as“ the study of style ”(1989:437), while Widdowson provides a more informative definition as“ the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation ” and takes “a view that what distinguishes stylistics from literary criticism on the one hand and linguistics on the other is that it is essentially a means of linking the two ”(1975:3). Leech holds a similar view. He defines stylistics as the “ study of the use of language in literature ”(1969:1) and considers stylistics a“ meeting-ground of linguistics and literary study ”(1969:2). From what Widdowson and Leech say, we can see that stylistics is an area of study that straddles two disciplines: literary criticism and linguistics. It takes literary discourse (text) as its object of study and uses linguistics asa means to that end. Stylistic analysis is generally concerned with the uniqueness ofa text; that is, what it is that is peculiar