An Analysis Of The Style And Culture Connotation Of Oscar Presentation Speech

Oscar Presentation Speech, a significant socioculture of America, serves as a very indispensable part in Academy Awarding which is the most important movie ceremony in America. It is a speech delivered at a certain ceremony to acknowledge the nominees' achievements and their brilliant work in the movies in order to, firstly of all, get the audience acquainted with the nominees'accomplishments in acting and then entertain the audience. With profound influence and great importance, presentation speech, actually, is a unique and practical style. Therefore, a stylistic study on Oscar Presentation Speech enriches the scope of stylistics and helps us appreciate the charm of presentation speech as well. The analysis of cultural connotation presented in the speech can widen our vision and let us have a better understanding of Americans.The author downloaded the video of Oscar Award ceremonies in both English and Chinese captions in recent 5 years to reveal the stylistic features of Oscar Presentation Speech with a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach. The research procedures of this thesis are as follows:analyzing the linguistic descriptions, textual analysis and contextual factors analysis of Oscar Presentation Speech.The major research findings are as follows:at phonological level, the percentage of contraction shows the informal feature of presentation speech, while the word length at lexical level unveils that the honored guests are careful in word choice, which shows the formal feature. The sentence length and the sentence patterns tell that Oscar Presentation Speech shares the characteristics of both written and spoken language. Parallelism at semantic level serves as a catalyst to make the speeches vivid and interesting. As for the stylistic analysis, the style of Oscar Presentation Speech is written to be spoken. Concerning the cultural connotation the thesis also reveals that Americans are straightforward, good at expressing their feeling and complimenting others. And they are also very humorous, but American women are less humorous than men because of their status.