'ENTRÉE INTO THE MIND AND MOOD OF AMERICA'

Autor:	Anna Konstantinova
Jazyk:	German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Russian
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	proverb commencement address graduation politics cognitive-discursive function structural organization of discourse Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
Zdroj:	Proverbium, Vol 35, Iss 1 (2018)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2806-7568 90682475
Popis:	The present paper explores different aspects of proverb use in the commencement address discourse. It draws on the analysis of 100 speeches delivered at US universities over the past three decades. First, I offer some introductory remarks about the commencement ceremony as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Second, I look at the discursive characteristics of the commencement address. Next, I analyze the role proverbs play on the thematic level of the speeches and provide comments on their cognitive-discursive functions in the most significant thematic groups distinguished in the course of study. Last, I offer a closer study of the entertaining function and the function of structural organization of discourse proverbs fulfill in the commencement address.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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