Functional Styles. Афанасьева Н.Р - 16 стр.

       To completely get rid of                                         ment on the ideas they express and the pragmatic effect they pro-
       To formally order or ask someone to come to a particular place   duce. (Account for different cases of gradation and antithesis in
       To create or develop smth                                        particular).
       Explain what is meant in the text by the following words and          10. What devices does the speaker use most? In your opinion,
expressions. (Use the context these words occur in to comment on        does he abuse them?
their meaning and the nuances of it):                                        11. Does he use emotional or logical appeal more?
       The heirs of that first revolution                                    12. Listen to the speech again and mark the points where the
       Tempered by war                                                  audience applauds. Are they easy to predict from the stylistic devices
       To be committed to smth                                          used and the increase in tonality created by the speaker? Does the
       To pledge the loyalty                                            speaker get an adequate response from the audience?
       Casting off the chains of poverty                                     13. Comment on the tension created in the speech – is it con-
       Its writ may run                                                 stant, increasing, decreasing, or fluctuating?
       Overburdened by
       Is subject to proof                                                    TEXT 3
       To belabour smth.
                                                                              1. What do you know about M.L. King? Read the information
       To be embattled
                                                                        below and try to identify the main issues that will influence your
       To shrink from responsibility
                                                                        analysis of his speech.
       5. Look through the text and comment on its structure. Ex-
plain and support by the text your idea as to its structural parts.            Background
Make sure to mention the following:                                            Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most memorable speech from his
       a) the introduction, the body and the conclusion                 life as an activist, "I Have a Dream," was delivered August 28, 1963
       b) the shifts in the subtopics throughout the speech             before more than 200,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in
       c) the flow of ideas, the emphasis on some of them and how it    Washington, D.C. as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and
influences the structure ( logical emphasis within the parts)           Freedom. The speech not only helped to galvanize the already growing
       6. What means of cohesion are used in the speech?(You can        civil-rights movement across the country at the time, it also became
refer to the appendices for the list of cohesion devices)               one of the most influential and inspirational pieces of rhetoric in
       7. Comment on the register of the words used in the speech:      American history.
account for the use of formal (bookish, archaic, poetic) and informal          Remarkably, midway through his delivery, King suspended his
words (if any). Sum up your ideas.                                      pre-scripted text and began to improvise; what resulted was the
       8. What types of information can you find in the text? (Refer    speech's most recognizable section, the passage in which the words "I
to the Appendices to revise your knowledge of informativeness as        have a dream" are passionately repeated.
text category)                                                                 Indeed, King's background as a Baptist preacher in the South in-
       9. Analyse the text as to the stylistic devices and expressive   stilled in him a keen awareness of the urgency of the moment and the
means employed to make the speech more vivid and eloquent. Com-
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