【正文】 Winston.Acknowledgements:It was really a laborious task to acplish a thesis. Many people gave me support and help in the process of writing the paper. I’d like first to give my grate to my dear teacher, vice professor Mr. Liu Fagong, who generously gave me his kindly help and instructions during the whole process of my paperwriting. Then I’d like to give my many thanks to my classmates who helped me a lot with my information collecting and paperpolishing. Most important of all, I want to give my thanks to my mother university and all the teachers in the English College, who educated and cultivated me to be a qualified teacher in the future.A Brief Introduction to the Author:Su Zhanghai, a student in Class One 1988 Grade, majoring in English Education, and a welltobe teacher in Shandong Agricultural University, who wholeheartedly gives his best wishes to all the teachers in Qufu Normal University.9 / 9。 in par. 17, the words “with the faith we will be able to…” has been repeated twice for the purpose of showing how strong the faith of the black people is to struggle for the brotherhood of “all of God’s children”, and how strong the faith of the black people is to believe that they “will be free one day”. Now let’s enjoy another example.④And if America is to be a GREat nation this must bee true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire! Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!But not only that。 that is, what it is that is peculiar to the uses of language in a literary text for delivering the message. This naturally involves parisons of the language of the text with that used in conventional types of discourse. Stylisticians may also wish to characterize the style of a literary text by Systematically paring the language uses in that text with those in another. Halliday points out, “The text may be seen as ‘this’ in contrast with ‘that’, with another poem or another novel。Abstract: On the base of the definition of stylistics, this thesis gives a detailed analysis of some the of stylistic devices used in the famous speech by the wellknown American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and then probes into the stylistic characteristics of speech as a style.Key words: Stylistics, Stylistic devices, analysis, speech.馬丁. 《我有一個夢》的文體分析摘 要：本文首先闡述了文體學(xué)的定義，并在此基礎(chǔ)上對對美國著名黑人領(lǐng)袖馬丁. 《我有一個夢》中所使用的文體手段進(jìn)行了詳盡的分析，進(jìn)而對演講文體的風(fēng)格進(jìn)行了簡要的論述。關(guān)鍵詞：文體學(xué)；文體手段；分析；演講As an interdisciplinary field of study, stylistics promises to offer useful insights into literary criticism and the teaching of literature with its explicit aims and effective techniques. It is very useful in the analysis of various styles of writing. In this thesis, the author tries to offer a stylistic analysis of the famous speech by Martin Luther king, Jr. I Have a Dream.1. Introduction: Definition of Stylistics and Stylistic AnalysisAs far as the definition of stylistics is concerned different scholars define the branch of study in different ways. Wales defines stylistics simply as “ the study of style” (1989:437), while Widdowson provides a more informative definition as “the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation” and takes “a view that what distinguishes stylistics from literary criticism on the one hand and linguistics on the other is that it is essentially a means of linking the two” (1975:3). Leech holds a similar view. He defines stylistics as the “study of the use of language in literature” (1969:1) and considers stylistics a “meetingground of linguistics and literary study”(1969:2). From what Widdowson and Leech say, we can see that stylistics is an area of study that straddles two disciplines: literary criticism and linguistics. It takes literary discourse (text) as its object of study and uses linguistics as a means to that end.Stylistic analysis is generally concerned with the