There are some same points as well as different points regarding the American presidents expositions of the constitution in administrative speeches and those in their inaugural.

This paper provides a brief analysis of the pragmatic functions of hedges in political speeches.

This thesis is intended to construct a framework for rhetorical analysis of political speech discourse from the perspective of Kenneth Burke s new rhetoric.

In western countries, the history of political speech can date back to the ancient Greece and Roman time.

Through analyzing metaphors in several political speeches,the writer gets the conclusion that NP metaphors are used with the highest frequency,and finds out tha.

After a brief review of the previous studies on political speeches andwith Halliday’s thematic theory and Dane’s thematic progression theory asthe theoretical framework, the present thesis focuses on .

The present study, adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) as its analytic approach, analyzes President Bush’s two political speeches, which are delivered on the crisis caused by the events of 9.

The "speech" is not only a prominent narrative principle of Thucydides History,but also a symbol of the Athenian democracy;yet it is unexpected that there are not any "speeches" in Book Eight of History.

Political speech is aimed to express position,expatiate view point and publicize opinion on national affaires and international relationships.