Chapter-One: General Metrics
Chapter-One: General Metrics
CHAPTER-ONE
CHAPTER-ONE
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18 Engagement
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CHAPTER-ONE
CHAPTER I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING
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viewpoint that is expressed, there is a course of cross-over the part and the
entirety.
5. Paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement that is still accurate. It could
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be a condition or a declaration. The paradox is a statement as a gure of
speech. The contradiction in a paradoxical phrase usually stems from one of
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the words being used symbolically or in more than one way.
6. Symbol perhaps generally characterized as something meaning more than
what it is. Picture, allegory, and image shade into each and are in some cases
troublesome to recognize, in common be that is it may, a picture cruel as it is
where it is, and image implies what it is and something more too, too. An image
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, that's capacities truly and metaphorically at the same time.
7. Hyperbole utilize overstated terms in arrange, but not deceive.
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Overstatement or exaggeration is an exaggeration, but misrepresentation
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within the benet of truth. It isn't the same as an angling story. Like all gures of
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speech, exaggeration may be utilized with an assortment of impacts. It may be
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funny or grave, whimsical or limited, persuading or unconvincing exaggeration
could seem strained and strange.
8. Irony has a meaning that expands past its utilization simply as a gure of
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discourse, verbal incongruity. Saying the inverse of what one implies, is
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frequently confounded with mockery and with parody. Although verbal
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incongruity continuously suggests the inverse of what is said, it has numerous
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degrees, and as it were in its least complex frame it is cruel as it were the
inverse of what is complex shapes it implies both what is said and the inverse
of what is said, at once although in numerous ways and several degrees of
accentuation.
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9. Synecdoche could be an extraordinary sort of metonymy in which a portion of
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something is substituted.
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e.g. many new hands are working at the factory (employees).
Aristotle's Rhetorical Appeals
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1. Ethos relies upon the personality of the speaker. At the point when the
speaker seems deserving of belief, the crowd acknowledges his suggestions
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and thinks of them as evident and valid. This can be accomplished when his
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messages react to three characteristics: good sense, good moral character, and
goodwill.
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2. Pathos is an enticing method plans to stimulates the feeling of the crowd to
change their perspective as to their decisions. In pathos, the speaker attempts
to: Move the hearer's emotion, and allow the listeners to experience a feeling
that relates to the current situation, awakens feeling such as love, pride, anger,
empathy, and fear.
3. Logos requests reason and legitimate con rmation with realities, models
mirroring the universe. Logos should be visible through the speaker's: reasons,
facts, examples, rhetorical questions, and enthymemes.
The variables investigated in this study are represented by the rst and second
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boxes. The rst box displays the data gathered for the study's analysis. The
second box presents the study theory and framework that the researchers will
use to analyze and examine the study's data. Finally, in the third box is the
proposed outcomes based on the analysis of the study's results.
Research Objectives
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The objectives of this study are to identify the dominant gures of speech and
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mostly utilized mode of persuasion in the four (4) Commencement Speeches of
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago and how these strategies persuade
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graduates in managing future opportunities and challenges.
Statement of the Problem
This study attempts to assess the rhetorical strategies embedded in the select
commencement speeches delivered by the late Senator Miriam Defensor
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Santiago to motivate graduates for managing future opportunities and
challenges. Speci cally, it answers the following questions:
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1. What gures of speech are dominantly used by Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago in her motivational speeches?
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2. What rhetorical appeals are highly used in Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago's motivational speeches?
Scope and Limitation
The researchers have set several limitations in this study. First, the researchers
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have limited to only four speeches to be used as data in this study. Second, this
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study focused only to investigate four (4) Commencement speeches of the late
Senator Miriam Santiago delivered in different universities; (1) Commencement
Speech in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine last May 20,
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2012, (2) Commencement Speech in University of the Philippines Cebu last
April 30, 2014, (3) Commencement Speech in University of Perpetual Help
System, Biñan Laguna last March 1, 2016, (4) Commencement Speech in Our
Lady of Fatima University at Valenzuela City last March 4, 2016.
Correspondingly, this research was limited only to the qualitative approach
using Perrine's Theory of Figures of Speech and Aristotle's Three Modes of
Persuasion- ethos, logos, and pathos, as a tool for the investigation of the
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speeches. The differences between this study and the other studies are on the
research Objectives. Most of the previous studies utilized political speeches as
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the object of the research, while this current study uses academic speech.
Additionally, this study identi es the most dominant gurative languages and
Rhetorical strategies used by Miriam Defensor Santiago in her speeches.
Signi cance of the Study
The researchers believe that the study will be bene cial to the following groups
of individuals:
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Students. The study will help students improve their written and oral abilities,
and enhance their creative thinking. In addition, since this study has focused
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on motivational speech it will help readers on how they will face opportunities
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ahead and cope with their challenges in their everyday lives and the future.
Language Advocates. Raise public familiarity with the advantages of learning
dialects to impact or in uence the bearing of present and future instruction.
Public Speakers. This study will contribute to future speakers improving their
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knowledge of speeches, and speech styles and enhance their language choice
to use in various events related to public discourse.
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Future Researchers. This study would help expand related studies and this
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could be used as a reference for next further research related to investigating
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the gures of speech and rhetorical appeals that are employed in public
discourse.
De nition of terms
The following terms were de ned conceptually for a better understanding of
the study.
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Challenges.are the different cultures or problems that came from all domains
at the same time. It requires great effort, perseverance, and determination to
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deal with a set of situations to overcome.
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Commencement. It is a ceremony in which students formally receive their
diplomas at school or college.
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Discourse. It is how the language used socially to convey broad historical
meanings. It is language identi ed by the social conditions of its use, by who is
using it, and under what conditions. Language can never be 'neutral' because it
bridges our personal and social worlds.
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Figures of Speech. It is a word or phrase that is used in a non-literal way to
create an effect. This effect may be rhetorical in the deliberate arrangement of
words to achieve something poetic, or imagery as in the use of language to
suggest a visual picture or make an idea more vivid.
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Graduation.It is the fact of nishing a degree or other course of study at a
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university or school, or the ceremony at which you are of cially said to have
vanished.
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Motivation. It is one of the factors, which encourage the person to the
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commitment to some actions and plays a crucial role in the psychological
determinant.
Opportunities. It is an occasion or situation that makes it possible to do
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something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of doing
something.
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Pathos. It is a language that draws out feelings such as a pity or anger in an
audience.
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Persuasion. It is the action or fact of persuading someone or of being
persuaded to do or believe something.
Rhetorical. It is asked only to make a statement or to produce an effect rather
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than to get an answer, connected with the art of rhetoric.
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Rhetorical Appeals. These are argumentative strategies that are intended to
convince a listener of particular points by arguing or appealing to certain
aspects of the listener's character or personality.
Speech. It is the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by
articulate sounds.
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argumentative and persuasive discourse
can be followed
40. This present study aims to bridge this Passive voice misuse Clarity
gap by nding answers to the following:
a.) gures of speech that are dominantly
used by Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago in her motivational speeches.
50. The three means of persuasion can be Passive voice misuse Clarity
found
56. The two objects thought about are Unclear sentences Clarity
dissimilar, however, have included that
are similar to both.
69. a piece of the entire can be deduced Passive voice misuse Clarity
compound/complex
sentences
sentences
94. The variables investigated in this study Passive voice misuse Clarity
are represented by the rst and second
boxes.
95. The objectives of this study are to identify Unclear sentences Clarity
the dominant gures of speech and
mostly utilized mode of persuasion in the
four (4) Commencement Speeches of
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago and
how these strategies persuade graduates
in managing future opportunities and
challenges.
116. This study would help expand related Unclear sentences Clarity
studies and this could be used as a
reference for next further research
related to investigating the gures of
speech and rhetorical appeals that are
employed in public discourse.