Abstract
This paper aims to examine the stylistic effect of the mood features in Michelle Obama’s final address to the Americans. Anchored on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Discourse Stylistics, it basically focuses on the mood structures and the modality types registered in the speech. The findings disclose that the then U.S. first lady relies more on declarative mood and deontic modality to convey her message. The study thus infers that in her final message to her country citizens, Michelle Obama concentrates on action clauses and behaves as advisor towards women and men, as well as young and adults.
Highlights
According to Halliday (Halliday, 1994; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004), language is used to perform two main functions: (i) to set social relations between interactants, i.e., language as action; and (ii) to reproduce our experience, i.e., language as reflection
This paper aims to examine the stylistic effect of the mood features in Michelle Obama’s final address to the Americans
Anchored on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Discourse Stylistics, it basically focuses on the mood structures and the modality types registered in the speech
Summary
Education and Culture Research ISSN 2766-3302 (Print) ISSN 2766-3310 (Online). Dr Franck Amousssou1 & Dr Nassourou Imorou2* 1 Faculty of Languages, Letters, Arts and Communication, English Department, University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Cotonou, Benin 2 Faculty of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences, University of Parakou (UP), Benin * Dr Nassourou Imorou, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences, University of Parakou (UP), Benin.
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