The Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Clinton’s Farewell Speech

From the point of view of the interpersonal function in the theories of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar,this paper uses Clinton’s farewell speech as an example to explain how interpersonal meanings are generally realized in a political speech.Through a brief analysis of linguistic elements on different levels,the lexical,the sentential,we can find that modal auxiliaries and mood are the elements usually used in political speeches to achieve different interpersonal meanings.     

充分运用价格杠杆促进经济社会又好又快发展

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