Author(s)

Yue’e Li, Xiujuan Wang, Linping Wang, Linhong Xin

College of Foreign Languages, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China.

Impromptu speech plays an important role in the English speech contest. Applying the method of text analysis, the paper conducts a systematic research on the general rule of genre pattern from the aspects of the vocabulary, syntax, rhetoric, text structure based on the 23 impromptu speeches selected from the FLTRP Cup from 2011 to 2016. The results show that diversity of vocabulary and flexibility of sentence structure contribute to the outstanding speech. On the discourse level, two genres are widely used in the impromptu speech which are “what” model and “how” model. However, problems still exist, for example, the very limit number and type of figures of speech, which bears significant implications for public speaking teaching.

Impromptu Speech, Stylistic Features, Text Analysis

Li, Y. , Wang, X. , Wang, L. and Xin, L. (2019) Stylistic Features of Impromptu Speech of Chinese Learners. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 9, 191-205. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2019.93018.