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Journal articles on the topic "Commencement speakers"

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Pascual, Roy Angelo, and Deveyvon Espinosa. "Sharing of Success Stories: Politeness Strategies of Commencement Speakers." Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal 29, no. 5 (2024): 674–91. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14546192.

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In context of ceremonial discourse, commencement speeches serve as a significant platform for sharing success narratives, imparting words of wisdom and giving motivation as well as inspiration to graduating individuals. This study undertook a discourse analysis to unveil and explore the employment of politeness strategies by commencement speakers in sharing success stories during graduation ceremonies.  Limited to twenty (20) YouTube videos, the research scrutinized the linguistic choices within the speeches. Among the identified strategies, positive politeness emerged as the most frequen

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Mubarak, Ahmed Sahib, and Kadhim Ketab Rhaif. "Investigating pragma-rhetorical strategies utilized by American commencement speakers to motivate graduates for managing future opportunities and challenges." Linguistics and Culture Review 5, S1 (2021): 342–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/lingcure.v5ns1.1399.

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Motivating emotions is a critical factor in empowering students to manage the troubles they might face. Educational organizations pay great efforts to employ all the available means that can motivate their students for better learning from early stages until universities or institutes levels. The administrations of some universities and institutes, especially in the United States of America, do not stop there and pay more attention on motivating their students at the graduation parties on how to manage future businesses and challenges. This study explores how commencement speakers utilize succ

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Shabelnyk, K., and Y. Torhovets. "STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF MODERN ENGLISH COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES." Studia Philologica 1, no. 16 (2021): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2021.165.

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This paper investigates structural features of modern English commencement speeches. In the article, the commencement speech is defined as a speech delivered at the graduation ceremony by outstanding people, who gained national or international recognition in some field (e.g. science, medicine, business or entertainment). We suggest that commencement address belongs to the entertaining-commemorating type of discourse and its main purpose is to show respect and inspire graduates, to honour the beginning of their independent life. To meet the needs of the study Nagorska’s approach to the speech

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Warmke, Brandon. "Commencement Speech Morality." Social Philosophy and Policy 42, no. 1 (2025): 144–62. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0265052525000135.

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AbstractWe are never more high-minded about what matters in life than when we are at commencement ceremonies. As new graduates prepare to head into the real world, speakers tell them that to live meaningful lives they need to get out there and make their mark: change the world, upset the status quo, solve the biggest problems, and shape the revolutions of our time. But is this good life advice? Not really. Commencement Speech Morality encourages young people to become moralizers and busybodies. We should be wary of preaching it.

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Olii, Sanerita T., Devita A. Humiang, and Ignatius J. C. Tuerah. "An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts in Taylor Swift’s Speech at NYU's 2022 Commencement." Journal of English Culture, Language, Literature and Education 11, no. 2 (2023): 277–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.53682/eclue.v11i2.7032.

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This present study offers a comprehensive analysis of the illocutionary acts in Taylor Swift's commencement speech delivered at New York University (NYU) in 2022. Illocutionary acts, a crucial component of speech acts theory, encompass the speaker's intended communicative functions, such as asserting, commanding, questioning, or expressing emotions. Taylor Swift's speech is examined in the context of illocutionary acts to uncover the underlying intentions and rhetorical strategies used in the address. Illocutionary acts refer to speech acts aimed at achieving specific communicative functions o

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Duku, Berengar Irene, Obed Nii Broohm, and Elvis ResCue. "Exploring the semantic and pragmatic functions of modal auxiliaries: A case study of commencement speeches." Legon Journal of the Humanities 35, no. 1 (2024): 192–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v35i1.6.

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The use of modal auxiliaries in research articles and political speeches has been well investigated. The genre of commencement speeches, however, has yet to be investigated as far as the use of modal auxiliaries are concerned. In addressing the gap, the present study compares the usage of modal auxiliary verbs in commencement speeches of Ghanaian speakers with American speakers, and investigates the semantic contribution of the modal auxiliaries in the speeches. Additionally, the study also explores the speech act performed via the usage of the modal auxiliary verb and their pragmatic nuances

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Tiggelen, Brigitte Van. "Not an Epilogue, but a Commencement!" Chemistry International 41, no. 3 (2019): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ci-2019-0319.

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Abstract To many non-native, or non-American, English speakers, the word “commencement” sounds like a strange choice to designate the end of a university curriculum. But then, all speeches and celebration talks given on commencement day focus on the future, and what students must take away from the years leading to graduation in a world full of opportunities, challenges, and unknowns. The same applies to our work on the history of IUPAC. It was started in the wake of the IUPAC 100th anniversary, and it will be mentioned among other presentations during the IUPAC centenary celebrations, but for

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Bogdanowska-Jakubowska, Ewa. "The discursive construction of high achievers’ identities in American culture." Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 14, no. 2 (2018): 249–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lpp-2018-0013.

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Abstract It is a study of the discursive construction of high achievers’ identities in American culture. A corpus of 100 commencement speeches delivered during 2016 and 2017 graduation ceremonies in American universities has been used to analyse how commencement speakers, as a rule highly successful individuals, construct their identities through discourse. Besides celebrating academic achievements, one of the communicative purposes of the commencement speech is giving the graduates advice for the future. It has been investigated how the speakers legitimize their qualifications as a role model

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Venter, C. J. "Taalideologie en Afrikatale: universiteitstudente se persepsie daarvan in ’n postapartheidsbedeling in Suid-Afrika." Literator 24, no. 3 (2003): 113–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v24i3.303.

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Language ideology and African languages: The perception of university students in a post-apartheid South Africa Since the commencement of the new South African Constitution in 1996 student numbers in African languages at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education have dropped dramatically. It is argued in this article that this problematic situation should not be attributed to an inefficient language policy or ineffective course material, but rather to an ideological climate that is counter-productive to the optimal functioning of African languages as languages of education. I

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Wijaya, Kristian Florensio. "The Benefits of Activating Self-Regulation Behavior in Worldwide EFL Speaking Learning Contexts." SAGA: Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2025): 31–42. https://doi.org/10.21460/saga.2025.61.205.

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Transforming worldwide EFL learners into more proficient L2 speakers is a challenging mission as speaking is not merely about the meaningful communication occurrences among interlocutors but also the strong willingness shouldered by EFL learners to regulate their certain behaviors and actions to achieve the targeted learning objectives fully. The previous research results strongly suggested that EFL educators establish, nurture, and reinforce their learners’ self-regulation at the commencement of speaking-focused learning activities in order to make them more confident L2 speakers who are will

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Commencement speakers"

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Senate, University of Arizona Faculty. "Faculty Senate Minutes March 6, 2017." University of Arizona Faculty Senate (Tucson, AZ), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623059.

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Books on the topic "Commencement speakers"

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Wheelan, Charles J. 10 1/2 things no commencement speaker has ever said. Norton, 2012.

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Edith F. A. U. Painton. The Commencement Manual: Salutatories, Valedictories, Addresses And Responses, Class Poems, Songs, Histories, Sermons, Etc. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Edith F. A. U. Painton. The Commencement Manual: Salutatories, Valedictories, Addresses And Responses, Class Poems, Songs, Histories, Sermons, Etc. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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10½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said. Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2012.

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10 1/2 things no commencement speaker has ever said. Norton, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Commencement speakers"

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Foster, Michael Dylan. "A Kappa Manifesto." In Living with Monsters. punctum books, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0361.1.10.

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This essay is written from the perspective of a Kappa, a mischievous and murderous Japanese water sprite. The text is the transcript of a commencement speech delivered by a senior Kappa historian to young Kappa at their graduation from university. While rehearsing the history of the Kappa species, the speaker demonstrates how Kappa have always been able to manipulate human desires for the survival of their own species. In this way, they have evolved from demonic water monsters to cute and seemingly harmless figures and mascots. Arguing that this evolution is strategic and has helped ensure the

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Leo, John. "Cop-killer and commencement speaker." In Incorrect Thoughts. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351326407-34.

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Zimmerman, Jonathan. "Conclusion." In Campus Politics. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190627393.003.0008.

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On May 31, 1969, Wellesley College’s first-ever elected class speaker delivered a short set of remarks at its 91st commencement exercises. She had been preceded at the podium by Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, who denounced “coercive protest” on college campuses; he also chided student...

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Sudhalter, Richard M. "Big Town Blues." In Stardust Melody. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195131208.003.0009.

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Abstract The 1928 Book Nook “commencement” came and went, bigger and more elaborately choreographed than its predecessor. The old gang was still in attendance: Wad Allen, introduced as the “out-of-town speaker,” arrived in stovepipe hat and frock coat, a live white hen under his arm. Carmichael remembered his speech as “a marvelous thing … inspiring, yet completely senseless; as insanely futile as a Bent Eagle’s notion of posterity.”

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Conference papers on the topic "Commencement speakers"

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Marculescu, Corina. "INSPIRE, CONNECT, PERSUADE: MIX TECHNOLOGY AND ART IN TEACHING PRESENTATION SKILLS." In eLSE 2013. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-13-011.

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Do what you love. Inspire your audience. Have fun. These are some of the secrets behind the power and the success of Steve Jobs's presentations. As Communication Coach Carmine Gallo points out, while most presenters simply convey information, Jobs inspires; his presentations inform, engage, astound and electrify the audiences. My paper, too, was inspired by Steve Jobs, one of the most extraordinary speakers of our time, as were my EFL seminars and my students (Business and Engineering majors) when watching his videotaped 2007 speech unveiling the iPhone and his famous, memorable Commencement S

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