Discourse Analysis of Rita Pierson’s TED Talk: “Every Kid Needs a Champion”

• 영문명: Discourse Analysis of Rita Pierson’s TED Talk: “Every Kid Needs a Champion”
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: 성주현
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제31권 2호, 1~27쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.06.30

영문 초록

The study focuses on the discourse strategies used in Rita Pierson’s TED Talk “Every Kid Needs a Champion” speech. The transcript and video of her speech retrieved from the TED website were used as data. This paper analyzes how she has used different discourse strategies to successfully deliver her speech based on the politeness theory, persuasion strategies, and relevance theory. The findings suggest that Pierson efficiently used different discourse strategies to effectively deliver her idea through a brief public speech, which remains one of the most viewed TED speeches. The results prove that Rita Pierson has exerted effort to strategically encourage other educators to build relationships or connections with the students to improve the education system.

목차

1. INTRODUCTION

2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE

3. DATA AND METHODOLOGY

4. STUDY AND RESULTS

5. CONCLUSION

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키워드

public speech discourse analysis politeness theory persuasion strategies relevance theory