Comparative Analysis Obama’s And Cameron’s Inaugural Speechfrom The Persective Stlistics

Inaugural address is a kind of language communication activities with special purpose.As an art of language, it requires mobilizing the mood and struck the chord of theaudience so as to convey the ideas, views and inspiration of the speaker. Specific topolitical speech, it is an important form of public speech and plays a very importantrole in political life. Political speech is aimed to express position, expatiate viewpoint and publicizeopinion on national affairs and international relationships. Amongall America Presidents, the latest President Barack Hussein Obama has excellentspeech talent, whether conveying feeling and ideas or wording and phrasing, hisinaugural speech can be viewed as the classic work. The proper use of variety ofrhetoric means and distinctive religious color make Obama’s inaugural speech toachieve very high appreciation value. British Prime Minister David Cameronappropriately expressed his political issues with elegant and rigorous traditionalEnglish, and the words and sentences used by his speech are closely related withpolitical purpose, ideology and power. Taking Mr Obama’s speech and Mr Cameron’sspeech as linguistic data, from the three characteristics of pronunciation, vocabularyand syntax, this article develops deep and comprehensive analysis throughcomparative study method, and further pointed out how the two political figuressuccessfully used language and speech art to inspire audience’s enthusiasm and gainsupport of audience, finally the article tries to sums up the stylistic features ofpolitical speech.