关键词: 修辞情境分析, 修辞策略分析, 祝酒辞文本类型特点

Abstract: From rhetorical situation and rhetorical strategies, four speeches of the remarks in exchanges of toasts delivered by heads of states of China, USA and UK when President Xi visited America and England were analyzed, aiming at having a clearer understanding of such a genre features. Firstly, qualitative analysis on the data collected from those speeches revealed that the rhetoric had been ignited by the situation formed by the attending audiences and constraints of the history, culture and national conditions of their countries, so that he/she showed his/her respects to each other and expressed his/her expectations for the further development of both nations. Then, with the help of “three appeals”(ethos, pathos and logos), the rhetoric used such strategies as perspective angles, historic perspective, emotional words and logical arrangements of the speeches to decorate the banquets. Lastly, a friendly and harmonious atmosphere could be constructed. In essence, all those mentioned above proves the nature of rhetoric that to build up a harmonious relations between each nation.

Key words: analysis on rhetorical situation, analysis on rhetorical strategies, genre features of toasting speech