Tim Collins Speech

• Purpose?

  To motivate soldiers

  To portray righteousness in the invasion
• Audience?

  Soldiers

  Regiment

  Journalist

  Historians
• Contexts?

  Eve on the Iraq invasion (2003)

  Controversial war

  460,000 deaths

  Speech conventions = motavational language, syntactic parallelisms,
• Voice?

  Assured

  Decisive

  Respectful

  Tonal shift from aggressive to sensative

  Paternal
• Key techniques?

  Syntactic patterning

  Pragmatism

  Anaphora

  Semantic field of respect / decancy / morality