2011
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-011-9101-6
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Values and Messages Conveyed in College Commencement Speeches

Abstract: Using content analysis, values and messages were extracted from 90 American university commencement speeches delivered between 1990 and 2007.

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“…“Be yourself” is one of those pieces of advice that people give and receive throughout life (Partch & Kinnier, 2011). But how does one do this?…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…“Be yourself” is one of those pieces of advice that people give and receive throughout life (Partch & Kinnier, 2011). But how does one do this?…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research topics related to the speech at the graduation ceremony have attracted researchers' attention from linguistics and communication science. Most of them center around the commencement speech, for instance, about the use of metaphorical expression (Ardhianto, 2018), about the values and the messages contained (Partch & Kinnier, 2011), and about the type of speech acts performed (Darpito, 2016). Ardianto (2018) finds that the speaker of commencement speech creates contextual meanings of the chosen metaphorical expressions.…”
Section: Table Of Contentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ardianto (2018) finds that the speaker of commencement speech creates contextual meanings of the chosen metaphorical expressions. Partch and Kinnier (2011) identify the most frequent messages in descending order: Help Others, Do the Right Thing, Expand Your Horizons, Be True to Yourself, Never Give Up, Appreciate Diversity, Cherish Special Others, and Seek Balance. Darpito (2016) reveals four speech acts frequently performed in the commencement speech: representative, expressive, directive, and commissive.…”
Section: Table Of Contentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This research focuses on the discourse of university leadership or academic administrative discourse (AAD) as an intersection of academic and administrative types of discourse that constitutes a special kind of communication aimed at monitoring, preserving, and transmitting academic (university) values. University leaders use various communication channels within the multidimensional activities of the university (Bryman, 2007;Partch & Kinnier, 2011;Brandebury, 2015). Among them there are written statements of the leaders of the top American and British universities that belong to the appellative-axiological (ApAx) genre.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%