In 2015 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a commencement address at a graduation ceremony at Wellesley College – a private women’s liberal arts college in the USA. In the speech Adichie talks about women’s privileges as they are now, and gives her opinion on how they should be.
Adichie opens her speech in a traditional way: “Hello class of 2015. Congratulations! And thank you for that wonderful welcome. And thank you President Bottomly for that wonderful introduction.” Immediately afterwards she gives an introduction to the main theme of her speech – women’s privileges.
The speech is divided into five paragraphs, which are chronological constructed into an introduction, an elaboration of the problem and finally a conclusion. The speech is not very natural, because Adichie only has one recipient group, who are all the women at the college. Therefor she uses a lot of descriptive adjectives when she talks about men: loud, unpleasant and bad. This makes it easier for the audience to agree with Adichie, because men are manufactured in a negative way.
The language of the speech is generally formal and in high style. This we see through her varied vocabulary, which can be complex at times, and her use of long sentences. Adichie uses a high style because she is speaking at a graduation ceremony, and therefor she catches her audience better if she speaks in a formal language.
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