A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Chinese Dreams and American Dreams” Delivered by Bai Yansong

摘要

On March 3nd.2009,Chinese famous host Mr.Bai Yansong,a journalist,gave a speech at Yale University.This speech lasted forty minutes.The speech mainly talked about the changes between China and America through over the last thirty years,and mainly focuses on the author’s 40 years experiences and his understanding of Chinese dreams according to his own experiences.The audience,most students from Yale,were impressed a lot by his humorous speaking style.Therefore,it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics of speech are.The examination will be carried out in five perspectives,namely,phonological,graphological,lexical,syntactical and semantics analyses.