Abstract

Debate is considered an art of words. British parliamentary debate is one of the often used forms for university-level students to train themselves. And in order to debate in a BP form competition, debaters not only need to be a good public speaker with great reasoning skills and strong logic but also need to be a proficient English learner. Since the very beginning, we have used all kinds of ways to analyze and study the debate language and try to put forward some equations to build a good debater, but few studies have been done which associated with linguistic analysis. Swales and his move analysis as a branch of genre analysis to identify and illustrate the rhetorical organization of particular texts, and he mainly applied the move-step analysis on the RAs. Many studies have proposed various move schema for the analysis of different genres such as book reviews, grant proposals, and job application letters, to mention only some examples. The framework of move analysis developed by Swales (1990) has been successfully extended to broader areas of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) instruction. But there is no one ever links those two areas and uses them to discuss the topic of academic debate language. And thus I am going to use lexical bundles to create specific lexical chunks and link them to the move-step as the construction stones of a good debate speech. 

Key words: genre analysis, move-step, lexical bundles 

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

1.Literature review1-8

1.1Move analysis, ESP, lexical bundles.

1.1.1Move analysis and ESP

1.1.2Lexical bundles

1.1.3Lexical bundles and moves as building blocks

1.2Research Purpose

2.BP debate form -9-11

2.1British Parliamentary debate in real life

2.2Academic British Parliamentary debate

2.2.1 Role of each debater

3.Close analysis of debate speech (case studying) 12-31

3.1Prime minister’s speech

3.2Leader of Opposition’s speech

3.3DPM/DLO’s speech

3.4MG/MO’s speech

3.5GW/OW’s speech

4.Frequently- used lexical bundles32

5.Bibliography 33

6.Acknowledgement -34