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A Quantitative Analysis Study of Rhetorical Strategies in English Speeches Based on an Internet Corpus

Chao Fang

Chao Fang

College of Foreign Languages, Hefei University of EconomicsHefei, China
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Mar 19, 2025
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Published Online: Mar 19, 2025
Received: Nov 03, 2024
Accepted: Feb 11, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2025-0416
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Figure 1.

Five basic models of rhetoric structure theory
Five basic models of rhetoric structure theory

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Connectors usage frequency
Connectors usage frequency

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Meta-text quantity
Meta-text quantity

Rhetorical relationship data

RR Category Frequency
Chinses speaker English speaker χ^2 P Chinses speaker English speaker χ^2 Sig.
Mono-Nuclear 22 23 0.1681 0.652 1013 738 28.895 0.000
Multi-Nuclear 7 6 0.1568 0.395 438 463 1.381 0.183
Sum. 29 29 0.0023 0.924 1451 1201 12.541 0.000

Statistical table of Multi-Nuclear rhetoric strategy

No. Rhetoric relationship Chinese speaker English speaker χ^2 p
1 Contrast(M) 57 61 0.3024 0.561
2 Comparison(M) 68 103 7.8961 0.001
3 Joint(M) 123 125 0.2577 0.613
4 Conjunction(M) 142 135 0.0446 0.842
5 Analogy(M) 5 8 0.1175 0.732
6 Sequence(M) 35 31 0.0634 0.838
7 Parallelism(M) 8 0 4.6563 0.004
Total 438 463 12.6871 0.187

Statistical table of Mono-Nuclear rhetoric strategy

No. Rhetoric relationship Chinese speaker English speaker χ^2 p
1 Elaboration-general-specific(S) 258 280 4.3172 0.033
2 Comment(N) 130 53 29.7357 0.000
3 Background(S) 81 80 0.0911 0.846
4 Example(S) 83 65 0.4232 0.563
5 Antithesis(S) 70 33 12.1395 0.002
6 Volitional result(N) 66 44 3.3782 0.078
7 Volitional cause(S) 46 40 1.1085 0.334
8 Non-Volitional cause(S) 36 19 5.2894 0.055
9 Solution hood(N) 33 6 11.3376 0.000
10 Concession(S) 28 21 0.8462 0.407
11 Restatement(S) 25 13 1.5192 0.131
12 Motivation(N) 24 3 18.5899 0.000
13 Non-volitional result(N) 20 6 4.6919 0.013
14 Summary(N) 18 38 12.5773 0.000
15 Evidence(S) 15 12 0.2665 0.661
16 Hypothesis(S) 10 8 2.1939 0.131
17 Rhetoric question(S) 4 1 1.6688 0.188
18 Elaboration-part-whole(S) 2 2 0.3228 0.649
19 Purpose(S) 2 4 1.2768 0.216
20 Definition(S) 1 3 0.0386 0.213
21 Conclusion(N) 37 0 38.1436 0.000
22 Evaluation(N) 18 0 18.6983 0.000
23 Topic-shift(S) 6 0 4.7069 0.069
24 Circumstance(S) 0 3 1.2595 0.208
25 Means(S) 0 1 1.1073 0.945
26 Otherwise(S) 0 3 1.1852 0.372
Total 1013 738 27.1443 0.000
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