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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 General Introduction
1.2 Research Orientation and Questions
1.3 Purpose and Significance of the Study
1.4 Format of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Studies on Public Speaking
2.1.1 The History of Public Speaking
2.1.2 Features of Public Speaking
2.1.3 Classifications of Public Speaking
2.2 Political Public Speaking
2.2.1 Purpose and Functions of Political Public Speaking
2.2.2 Previous Research on Political Public Speaking
2.3 Style and Stylistics
2.3.1 Style
2.3.2 Stylistics
2.4 The Present State of the Research
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3.1 Data Collection and Corpus Used in the Thesis
3.2 Instruments
3.3 Method of Analysis
3.4 Levels of Analysis
3.4.1 On Phonological Level
3.4.2 On Graphological Level
3.4.3 On Lexical Level
3.4.4 On Syntactic Level
3.4.5 On Textual Level
Chapter 4 Analysis and Discussion
4.1 On Phonological Level
4.1.1 Rate
4.1.2 Contraction
4.1.3Alliteration
4.2 On Graphological Level
4.2.1 Paragraphing
4.2.2 Punctuation
4.3 On Lexical Level
4.3.1 Word Length
4.3.2 Word Class
4.3.3 Adaptation of Wording
4.4 On Syntactic Level
4.4.1 Sentence Length
4.4.2 Sentence Tense
4.4.3 Sentence Type
4.5 On Textual Level
4.5.1 Cohesive Devices
4.5.2 Rhetoric Devices
4.5.3 Discourse Patterns
Chapter 5 Conclusions
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations
References
Appendixes
Publications
Acknowledgements
Resume
