A CDA Al Gore's lecture at Nobel Peace Prize Award 2007= Phân tích bài phát biểu của AL Gore tại lễ trao giải Nobel vì hòa bình năm 2007 dưới góc độ phê phán. M.A. Thesis Linguistics: 60 22 15

Abstract

The analysis of the lecture reveals how Al Gore created and reinforced his power and ideology by virtue of linguistic features: the speaker's power is expressed explicitly in the discourse via the popular use of modality most of which convey direct requests/ demands and the conflation of thematic structure and information structure. Ideologically, Gore's worries about the global warming effects and their probable consequences as well as his belief in human's ability of solving the problem have been clearly expressed by means of vocabulary, the predominance of relational processes and marked themes.