The "speech" is not only a prominent narrative principle of Thucydides History,but also a symbol of the Athenian democracy;yet it is unexpected that there are not any "speeches" in Book Eight of History.

Political speech is aimed to express position,expatiate view point and publicize opinion on national affaires and international relationships.

Discourse Analysis for "Presidential Campaign Address"——By Interpersonal Metafunction;

This thesis is an attempt to explore text-theme in the Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation , in the framework of interpersonal meaning within Hallidayan Systemic-Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL).

By the means of exploring the roman contio and oration delivered on the contio in details, this paper attempts to set the action of roman orator and his interaction with the audience, the roman populus in the center of view and shed a new ligh.

American presidential inaugural addresses is an important kind of public speaking, while public speaking is taken as an essential form of stylistics in western countries.

On this premis, therefore, the author analyzes the rhetorical strategies in the context of particular occasion of speech, in order to investigate how the Athenian politicians\' performance of speeches affected the populace\'s political cognition.