The Evaluative Analysis Of Intersubjective Stance In Cultural Communication Speeches

As a prevalent medium to promote personal creative opinion and to enhance cultural communication, it is essential for speakers to find an effective way to establish his own value position and influence or persuade audience implicitly. Speakers should take a stance towards the various points-of-view or social positioning referenced by the text and thereby position themselves with respect to the other social subjects.The engagement framework is specified in this paper. This thesis draws upon analytical procedures and tools from SFL and Appraisal Theory to conduct an in-depth analysis of intersubjective stance in cultural communication speeches. Based on two parameters of voice source and dialogic space, the realization of intersubjective stance is analyzed in two categories, dialogic contraction and dialogic expansion. During the analysis, some implicit engagement resources are added to the framework.The intersubjective model of cultural communication is applied in the analysis of intersubjective stance in TED speeches. It shows that intersubjective stance is not construed in terms of single modeled audience, but in terms of multiple reading positions. In the light of the degree of alignment between the speaker and modeled audience, there are two types of intersujective stances in cultural communication speeches, including alignment and disalignment. Under alignment, it can be specified into two types, i.e. definite alignment and tolerant alignment. According to the analysis, speakers mainly adopt deny and counter to exclude dialogic alternatives to establish authority; probabilise and acknowledge are used to align putative addressees who stick to different social position; and speakers presuppose compliant audience by concur and pronounce.