His son is young man trying to establish his position and find the place thin society. Father is a famous and recognized sportsman, who is trying to make comeback to his boxing carrier after few years. Each of the participants of conversation represents different generation with age difference of 30 years.Įven though they are closely related their relationship seems to be eroding. The conversation between father and son is informal as it is also in actual life between close family members. Lower degree of formality is most of the time characteristic of casual field. The more specialized or technical field Of particular discourse is the more it is probable that tenor of that particular discourse is formal. However, this conversation is depicted as raising all of the sudden and is unprepared, without any specific topic, thus we classify it as being of casual field.įield is closely connected to tenor. The scene depicts the father and the son talking about family matters and social life. Field constitutes the second subcategory of register.
#ROCKY BALBOA SPEECH TO KID MOVIE#
This conversation resented in video was also intended to be seen and heard rather than read from movie script and therefore we may say that the mode of this sample is spoken. The transcript may serene as source for citation if needed. Audiovisual sample can be considered to be the only primary source essential for this analysis since there is no original transcript that exactly corresponds with the video. 1 Register Register as segment that will be analyzed is divided into three subcategories: mode, field and tenor. Significant attention is paid also to Paraguayan. This analysis will kook closely at the vocabulary and lexis present and it will try to reveal general discourse characteristics of chosen sample. I will focus on register, grammar, morphology and syntax Of the discourse. 3 Analysis As already mentioned, I will analyze the audiovisual sample leaning on corresponding transcript of chosen movie scene. Since text of the transcript which can be found in actual movie script slightly differs from the audio discourse of the scene, I modified the transcript text so it corresponds with words spoken in the scene. To e able to analyze not only the audiovisual characteristics of this sample I included and decided to use transcript of the conversation which serves more or less only as fulcrum for the analysis of the chosen conversation. However, to make my analysis linguistically more interesting I decided to analyze the whole conversation which this speech is a part of. At first I intended to analyze this motivational speech by itself without anything that would precede or follow after it. I personally believe that this scene contributes to the overall success of the movie and that the words of this scene are known not only by the all Rocky fans but as well by the people who haven’t even seen the movie. Rocky Balboa” is the sixth shiest grossing movie about boxing and it was also rated as the most successful starring role of Sylvester Stallion since 1993. Part of the whole conversation which is depicted in the scene presents highly motivational and inspirational speech of the movie protagonist. 2 Data and Method For this seminar paper I chose this particular movie scene because of the message that is conveyed through this scene and because I believed it would be very linguistically interesting for such analysis. This analysis will be based on knowledge acquired from the Stylistic course. The aim Of this paper is to analyze the chosen scene with the focus on different linguistic segments which are interrelated.
Transcript of the movie scene will be used for his analysis as well.