Language and Power-Speeches

Language and Power-Speeches
Modal Verbs:
I WILL ensure that
You MAY find that
We CAN
It is important that we MUST

Modal Verbs:
Influential
Displays confidence
Certain/Making a promise-Commands Respect

Epistemic Modality:
When a modal verb is used to express the speeches opinions about a statement, for example 'It MIGHT be true'
Deontic Modality:
When a modal verb is used to affect a situation, for example giving permission 'You CAN go when you are finished'

Modality-Power:
Unity+Bonding
Intelligence
Strength+Determination
Epistemic Modality
-Used to avoid a face threatening act or could be used as an FTA
In some cases creates a sense of likeability

What is the relationship between a speech maker and their audience?
Speeches Persuasive Features:
Alliteration
Facts-Grounding in truth
Opinions-To persuade the audience to think the same
Rhetorical Questions-Thought provoking
Emotive Language-Personal,sympathy evoking
Statistics-Factual information
Tripling-Constant repetition for emphasis

Churchill Speech:
Use of pronoun 'we'
-Unity+Bonding
Emotive Language is used throughout
Modal Verb 'shall'
-Encouraging
-Determined
Repetition

Parallelism:
Synonymous Parallelism
-Sometimes the second half echoes or develops the first half
-Are similar to show that the ideas are equal in importance
-Adds balance and rhythm and, most importantly, clarity to the sentence
Antithesis:
-Establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them
-The contrast of two terms or ideas,is useful for making distinctions or clarifying differences which might otherwise be overlooked
Anaphora
-Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences
Epistrophe
-Repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive clauses or sentences

Martin Luther King Speech:
Epistrophe
-'together, together, together'
Anaphora
-'100 years later'x4
-'we can NEVER be satisfied'
-'let freedom reign'
'go back to Mississippi, go back to Atlanta'
'we cannot walk alone'
'the great American declaration of independence WILL go down in history'
Modal Verbs
-'we CANNOT'
Alliteration
-'sweltering summer'
Tripling
-'free at last'
Metaphors
'drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred'
'lips dripping with..'
'band of justice'
Deontic Modality
-'we cannot walk alone'
'We' shows unity+bonding