Gordon Brown Acceptance Speech

Gordon Brown Acceptance Speech Review:

- There is lots of reptition of personal pronouns such as "we" and "I" used through out the speech in order to emphasise that he is talking to the people about what he and his government will do for the country and its people. This use of personal pronouns also suggests that because it is what he is promising that it is him who has the power: "As I have travelled round the country and as I have listened and I have learnt from the British people"

- The modal verb "will" suggests that Gordon Brown is certain of the ideas he is promising will be done and this certainty gives him the power in this speech since it is all about what he personally will do for the country. "This will be a new government"

- When he says that he has accepted the power from the Queen of England, this suggests that in fact he does not have as much power as he is portraying in his speech because he had to accept this job from the Queen herself. "I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty the Queen to form a government."

- Convergence is a theory that could be related to this speech due to the fact that he is trying to gain in favour of the british people now that he is Prime Minister and is saying all the things he will do to "improve" Britain now that he was Prime Minister. As the theory says, he shifts his speech to include the nation in his speech by using personal pronouns like "we" and repeats after each idea that he will make Britain a great nation. This shows his need of social approval from everyone because this opening speech to his career as Prime Minister is the speech that everyone will judge him on and refer back to as his time as Prime Minister continues. "that if we can fulfil the potential and realise the talents of all our people, then I am absolutely sure that Britain can be the great global success story of this century."

- This speech is written in a very positive manner and is always refering back to Britain as a nation and how great it will be once again with new policies etc. There is useage of positive lexis and with this positive lexis comes lots of certainty in what is being said. He states what he says as facts by using words such as "cannot" and "convinced" to make the previous Prime Minister Tony Blair seem like a worse Prime Minister than him to make him look more fresh and good for the countries politics. "This change cannot be met by the old politics."