Discursuri celebre la dezvelirea monumentului lui A.S. Pușkin, în 1880. O analiză retorică
Famous Speeches at the Unveiling Ceremony of the A.S. Pushkin Monument. A Rhetorical Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The current paper is based on the rhetorical analysis of two famous speeches delivered at the unveiling ceremony of the A.S. Pushkin monument in Moscow on June 6th, 1880. I chose to analyze the speeches delivered by Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoevsky, because there is an important difference between them that deserves to be highlighted. On the one hand, Turgenev delivered a contemporary speech, which places Pushkin in the center of universal literature, while Dostoevsky went for a traditional approach, placing the poet in the center of Russian literature: he insisted on the fact that he was not just a great writer, but a Russian writer. In this paper I made a rhetorical analysis of the two speeches and I discussed them from a lexical, morphological, syntactic, stylistic and pragmatic point of view.

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