Positive Discourse Analysis of TED Artificial Intelligence Education Speech Under Attitude System

Journal: Journal of Higher Education Research DOI: 10.32629/jher.v5i5.3057

Xiaoge Gao

Yan'an University, Yan'an 716099, Shaanxi, China

Abstract

Taking attitude resources under evaluation theory as the theoretical framework, this paper selected a TED speech titled "How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Education (instead of Destroying It)" as the Corpus for positive discourse analysis, and used the data analysis software UAM Corpus Tool 3.3 to conduct a quantitative analysis of the distribution of evaluation resources for this speech. And through the qualitative analysis of speech discourse to explore the speech delivered by the positive information. The study found that the speech used a wealth of attitude resources, of which emotional resources were the most used, reflecting the speaker's affirmation of artificial intelligence education and positive attitude towards the development of artificial intelligence education.

Keywords

attitude resources; artificial intelligence; discourse discourse; positive discourse analysis

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