Chief Joseph speech

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  • Created on: 03-02-24 14:15
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  • Chief Joseph
    • GRAMPS
      • Genre- speech
      • Register-formal
      • Audience- the white people with authority and other natives
      • Mode-spoken
      • Purpose-to infrom and persuade
      • Subject-justice and equlity
    • Content and context
      • They had been running from army trying to lead his people to safety
      • They hadn't let him look for his people
      • Trying to plead for his peoples saftey and land but he was unsuccesful and his people resettled in a reservation far from their home
    • Language
      • tone is emotive and powerful
        • Emotive language
          • "When i think of our condition,my heart is heavy"
      • Pragmatics
        • he is pleading, being diplomatic while trying not to show his anger
          • still unsuccseful
        • he is native yet he knows he must show the white man respect to stay safe
      • Seperation
        • Adressing gov about gov but trying to seperate the audience gov from yhe gov that moved them
          • avoid attacking audience hoping for their support
          • appealing to their positive face
          • Pronouns
            • "they" goverment
        • of native and the white man
          • Native names
            • "Tu-hul-hil-sote"
      • "Hin-mah-too-yaj-lat-kekht has spoken for his people"
        • simple sentece in past tense
          • it's and efective closing
            • emphasis on his point
          • snese of finality
            • express disapointment
            • last chance and hope
      • anaphora
        • "they do not"
          • emphasises the lack of help & injustice
          • targets issue not audience
        • "Good words"
          • ironic
      • Refers to the leaders as "cheifs"
        • respect
      • Tautology
        • "all men","all brothers","allpeople"
      • Repetition
        • "free"
    • Politness theory
      • negative but direct afress
        • he does not put his people or himself down but is direct in the issue
          • "freezing to death"
      • "if the white man want to live in peace with the indian he can live in peace"
        • Positive politness- bigging up what they could do
      • "good words"
        • Positive politness
          • respects the words and the giver

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