Analysis Of Mandy Len Catron's Speech

Mandy Len Catron, a writer and English teacher, tells about the ways how we express the feeling of love in words. Relating on the personal experience and making special research in order to start writing the books on romantic stories, she figured out people tend to use various metaphors, special language constructions and linguistic specificities to express the feeling of love. The speaker highlights that the way people express love crucially reflects the basis of their love relationships experience. She speculates on the topic whether the difference between the mental illness and love serotonin tests are distinguishable. The speakers’ speech takes place on the scene of independent event TEDxSFU. Ms. Catron uses minimum gestures to talk about her topic – love. She mainly uses her right hand to help her

She repeats the word ‘love’ 56 times in her speech, which is the theme, in accordance to the corpus analysis of her speech. Ms. Catron uses such speech figures as anaphoric constructions, repeating the stylistic sentence structures, when she states the problem that by falling in love we become the victims of it; metaphors, while utilizing quotation of the famous people and writers; climax in order to catch attention by using the words on the basis of increasing importance; rhetoric questions to interact with the audience; and gives examples to support her arguments she made during the talk itself. Summarizing all above, the strong points of the speech given by Mandy Len Catron include the following: (1) a good background, personalizes the story, presenting her research points and real life experience; (2) emotions, interacting with the audience smiling; (3) no reading from notes or slides; (4) good vocal variety – no monotonous voice, use of intonation for questions and catching attention. All these points listed above allow this speech to be effective and