The article discusses work ethos in American ceremonial discourse addressed to the young entering adult life. Its aim is to investigate whether the Protestant work ethic still pervades the American thinking about work. Through a qualitative analysis of the corpus of 100 randomly selected commencement addresses delivered during 2016 and 2017 graduation ceremonies in American universities, it is shown how work-related topics are employed by the speakers celebrating the graduates’ academic achievements and providing them with advice for the future. The Discourse-Historical Approach, committed to Critical Discourse Analysis, has been chosen as a methodological approach, integrating the interpretation of discourses and texts with sociological and historical research, studies on narration, stylistics, rhetoric and argumentation theory. As the discourse to be analyzed is culture-specific, I have decided to combine the Discourse-Historical Approach with Cultural Studies.

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面向年轻人的美国礼仪话语中的工作精神

这篇文章讨论了美国礼仪话语中针对进入成年生活的年轻人的工作精神。其目的是调查新教的职业道德是否仍然普遍存在于美国人的工作思想中。通过对 2016 年和 2017 年美国大学毕业典礼上随机选择的 100 个毕业典礼演讲的语料进行定性分析，展示了演讲者如何利用与工作相关的主题来庆祝毕业生的学术成就，并为他们提供建议未来。致力于批判性话语分析的话语-历史方法已被选为一种方法论方法，将话语和文本的解释与社会学和历史研究、叙事研究、文体学、修辞学和论证理论相结合。