英语分析乔布斯演讲《stay hungry,stay foolish》

A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Delivered by Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivered on 12th in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.

Phonological Features

The speech is delivered in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable.

. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had …released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier

So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected audiences deeper than in a flat tone.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward…This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again” “remembering”,

as well as in transitional words such as “don’t”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed what he really want to say.

Graphological Features