Persuasive aspects of Stephen Harper's speeches

Bc. Patrik Bohuněk

Bachelor's thesis

Anotácia:

Tato práce se zabývá určením persvaznich jazykových prostředků ve výrocích a politických projevech kanadského prémiéra Stephena Harpera. Zahrnuté projevy jsou Victory speech of 2006, Apology for Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act of 2006, Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools in 2008, Speech addressed to the World Economic Forum at Davos Annual Meeting in 2010 a Harper’s concession speech in 2015. Hlavní metodou analýzy jsou Aristotelovy apely, logos, ethos a pathos.

Abstract:

This bachelor thesis deals with identifying the language aspects portraying Harper’s political speeches as persuasive. The speeches chosen to display the persuasive aspects are Harper’s Election night Victory speech of 2006, Apology for Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act of 2006, Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools in 2008, Speech addressed to the World Economic Forum at Davos Annual Meeting in 2010 and Harper’s concession speech in 2015. The key methods of the analysis are Aristotle’s appeals, logos, ethos, and pathos.

Keywords

Harper, persuasive, political, speech, language, appeal, persvazní, politické, projevy, jazyk, apel

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 21. 4. 2021

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 23. 6. 2021
• Vedúci: doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D.
• Oponent: Mgr. Radek Vogel, Ph.D.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Education

Bachelor programme / odbor:
Specialization in Education / English Language for Education