Proposal Seminar: Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Proposal Seminar: Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Proposal Seminar: Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Asrofin Nur Kholifah, S.S., M.Hum Kristianto Setiawan, S.S., M.A Dr. Chusni Hadiati, S.S., M.Hum
UMI FATONAH
J1A015022
Background of the Study
Motivational
Speech
Rhetoric
Figurative
Ethos-Pathos-
Logos Language
Function
STYLISTICS
Saying less than the actual
Litotes meaning to show humility
“So, I know how to talk, I can tell you that, but I was a little
intimidated coming here because graduation, it’s tough, it’s
hard trying to come up with something to share with you that you
haven’t already heard”
Context
The environment where the text happens
Context is distinguished into three types: Linguistic Context, Situational
Context, Cultural Context (Song, 2010:876-877)
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the use of language to motivate hearers or readers in a group
or individually (Corbett, 1971)
Aristotle has established three elements of rhetoric namely ethos, pathos,
logos that gather together that is called as rhetorical triangle.
Literature Review The speaker’s authority,
Speaker characteristics, and credibility
(Ethos)
The listener’s attention, emotion, and
passion
Figurative Language
Perrine (1963) explains that figurative language is unusual way in saying
something to make a speech more vivid and forceful.
Literature Review
Comparison Figurative Language
Simile
‘The soul in the body is like a bird in a cage’
Metaphor
‘Their memories are short’
Personification
‘Each day brings further evidence’
De-personification
‘If you are blood, so I am the meat’
Antithesis
‘To err is human; to forgive, divine’
Prolepsis
‘We are happy, next week we will receive a gift from the regent’
Pleonasm
‘I have written the incident with my own hand’
Literature Review
Opposition Figurative Language
Hyperbole
‘Reaffirm our enduring spirit’
Litotes
‘This kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance’
Irony
‘It was a cool 115 degrees in the shade’
Paradox
‘Sometimes helping is hurting’
Climax
‘At 6:20 a.m. the ground began to heave. Windows rattled; then they broke.
Objects started falling from shelves. Water heaters fell from their pedestals,
tearing out plumbing. Outside, the road began to break up. Water mains and
gas lines were wrenched apart, causing flooding and the danger of explosion.
Office buildings began cracking; soon twenty, thirty, forty stories of concrete
were diving at the helpless pedestrians panicking below’
Apostrophe
‘ O books who alone are liberal and free’
Literature Review
Association Figurative Language
Metonymy
‘The orders came directly from the White House’
Synecdoche
‘If had some wheels, I’d put on my best threads and ask for Jane’s hand in
marriage’
Parallelism
‘He liked to eat watermelon and to avoid grapefruit’
Asyndeton
‘She likes pickles, olives, raisins, dates, pretzels’
Polysyndeton
‘And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the
demands of a new age’
Allusion
‘If you take his parking place, you can expect World War II’
Eponym
‘Is he smart? Why, the man is an Einstein’
Epithet
‘At length, I heard a ragged noise and mirth of thieves and murderers’
Erotesis
‘For if we lose the ability to perceive our faults, what is the good of living on?’
Literature Review
Repetition Figurative Language
Alliteration
‘To restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace’
Assonance
‘We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines’
Chiasmus
‘What is learned unwillingly is forgotten gladly’
Anaphora
‘Not time, not money, not laws, but willing diligence will get this done’
Anadiplosis
‘Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know’
Epizeuxis
‘The best way to describe this portion of South America is lush, lush, lush’
Epistrophe
‘The cars do not sell because the engineering is inferior, the quality of
materials is inferior, and the workmanship is inferior’
Symploce
‘To think clearly and rationally should be a major goal for man; but to think clearly
and rationally is always the greatest difficulty faced by man’
Epanalepsis
‘Our eyes saw it, but we could not believe our eyes’
Research Methodology
• Population : All
• Qualitative utterances in 2018
Research Oprah Winfrey’s
speech USC
Annenberg School for
Journalism and
Population Communication
Type & Sample • Sample: Utterances
containing figurative
language
Data Data
Analysis Collection