The Application and Research of Parallelism in National English Speaking Competitions Among Chinese College Students

Samples from Grand Final Contestants of China Daily “21st Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210313.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

public speaking, rhetorical devices, parallelism

Abstract

Speech is the earliest source of rhetoric. They are closely connected to each other. Rhetorical devices are important part of rhetoric study, as well as useful language tools in speech. Parallelism is one of the most frequently used rhetorical devices in speech. This paper conducts both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze all kinds of rhetorical devices, especially parallelism, in winning speeches of China Daily “21st Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition in recent years. The purpose is to explore the use of parallelism in national public speaking competitions among Chinese college students.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhisheng Wang
AU  - Xinyi Zhai
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/15
TI  - The Application and Research of Parallelism in National English Speaking Competitions Among Chinese College Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 109
EP  - 116
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210313.021
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210313.021
ID  - Wang2021
ER  -