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1、第 1 页 共 9 页A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Delivered by Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, he was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. The speech was delivere
2、d on 12th in June ,2005, in the Stanford University. When faced with thousands of audiences, Jobs shared 3 stories he experienced as well as his viewpoint about life. The stories were about connecting the dots、love and loss, as well as death. In this speech, Jobs applied many stylistic features that
3、 rare in other general public speeches. Therefore, it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics. The examination will be carried out in five perspectives, phonological, graphological, lexical, syntactical and semantic analyses.Phonological FeaturesThe speech is delivered
4、 in an university and the audiences are mainly from young groups, when faced these young men, Jobs expressed himself calmly and convectively, he used pause and stress in different tone appropriately to demonstrate why he was reputable. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had released our finest cr
5、eation - the Macintosh - a year earlier So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.When Jobs mentioned to his successful experience in Apple, he used a relative high voice, and the rhythm is relieved and relaxed, which
6、was full of pride. But when came on his failure in company, his voice became lower and more calm with clear pause, the pause signals the end of a thought unitIn the sentences, Jobs It showed that after going through success to failure, his mentality had changed and he became more mature, it affected
7、 audiences deeper than in a flat tone.Again, you cant connect the dots looking forwardThis approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.第 2 页 共 9 页Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Y
8、ou are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heartYour time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.This speech has lots of philosophy, Jobs tried his best to persuade his audiences to receive his
9、 views, so he stressed his tone when told these words on purpose, especially at the beginning words of the sentences, such as “again” “remembering”,as well as in transitional words such as “dont”. The stress enhanced tone and expressed what he really want to say.Graphological FeaturesPunctuation is
10、an important part in sentences. In this speech, it uses lots of punctuations, comma、period are prevailing ones, because the speech has most of short sentences. According to statistics, the speech concludes 139 periods and 101 commas. In usage, comma is used for pause to provided more messages and ma
11、ke it easy to be understood in speech, while comma is used for stating points to make tone objectively.In addition, capital is also an aspect of graphological features. Generally, capital is mainly used in the first letter of the first word in a sentence. In this speech, Jobs used capital letters su
12、ch as Sunday, David Pack, NeXT, Macintosh, Hare Krishna, etc. It is indicated that except initial (such as It), names of people and places(such as David Pack and Hare Krishna ),as well as some proper nouns (such as Macintosh）need capital. Besides, some stress words also need capital (such as Stay Hu
13、ngry. Stay Foolish)Lexical FeaturesLexical is the stem of a speech. In this speech, Jobs chosen most of easy-understanding words, for most of his audiences were young man. In the whole speech, Jobs encouraged his audiences to insist their belief when chose their jobs through 3 daily life stories, th
14、erefore his lexical are clear and concise, which mainly formed by simple words:第 3 页 共 9 页And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as StanfordI had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure i
15、t out. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interestingThere are many words in single or double syllable, such as go、 chose、 want、 idea、 figure、 lucky、 stay， etc, it makes the speech easy to understand
16、ing, at the same time, it seems more interesting when Jobs shared his experiences.Syntactical FeaturesIn this speech, Jobs used most of short sentences. According to this speech, there is more than 50 percent sentences include less than 15 words. The advantage of short sentences is easy to understand.It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms, It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in
