A Study of Xi Jinping’s Speech Discourse in the Context of Metadiscourse

Metadiscourse is an important concept in the field of discourse analysis, but related studies have been confined to various genres written discourse. There little research on persuasive function metadiscourse speech. This paper adopts a data analysis method collect keynote speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping at opening ceremonies 1th 4th China International Import Expo and Jinping’s New Year message from 2014 2022, with total 13 as corpus this research. Based literature method, directives, self-mentions, attitude markers Hyland’s Model are combined affective appeals Aristotle’s rhetorical persuasion theory analytical framework analyze corpus. And purpose discuss how these three types achieve speeches. The study finds that frequently used realized appeal well enhanced effect Directives , self-mentions conducive appeal, resonating audience, achieving ways promote audience’s understanding speech perspective studying