Speech analysis

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The speech analysis is a tool for investigating most political speeches . It is structured like a text analysis , the focus is on the examination of the linguistic stylistic devices used, but above all the content of the speech and its goal. In addition, when analyzing, one must consider the audience and the circumstances of the speech.

application

Speech analysis is widely used in the field of political history research and rhetoric to compare characteristic idiolects of historical figures and to learn to understand contrivances. In German lessons, speech analysis is carried out to better understand the mother tongue and to promote critical skills. In speech analysis, each sentence is individually "translated" in order to make it clear to the reader what the author wanted to express.

Lessons for speech analysis

• Caesar's opening monologue, "Julius Caesar", William Shakespeare
• Sports palace speech , Joseph Goebbels
• Richard von Weizsäcker : On the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe and the National Socialist tyranny , May 8, 1985, Bonn
• Speech on receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Martin Walser
• Speech by Wolfgang Schäuble on the debate: Bonn or Berlin