In the film 'Coach Carter', Timo Cruz gives a short farewell speech to his basketball coach who is leaving them, Cruz's speech gives prominence to the life lessons he has learned in a short time as well as how life can be changed depending on one's mindset. He explains that what scares you can be the very reason to push and motivate you, that what we fear can not always be a bad thing. Cruz's speech consisting of distinct syntactical structure along with prosodic features are determinants of its formality.
During the speech, Cruz uses prosodic features such as emphatic stress on pronouns such as 'our', 'we' and 'us' to make all feel involved. This inclusive language makes the speech more powerful in the sense that the audience are more likely to stand behind Cruz, contributing to its formality.
Cohesion is essential for the speech to connect and come together, a factor of cohesion present is the constant repetition of 'we' and 'our'. This impacts formality through again making the audience feel included and putting the idea in their mind that their mindset is equally affected.
The syntactic structure of this speech frequently repeats declarative sentences alternating between simple sentences such as the opening, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate." and "Your playing small does not serve the world" to complex sentences toward the ending of the speech, for example "As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." This contributes to formality through variation in sentence structure.
Phonetic features, variation of sentence structure and cohesion combine to create a one way formal register in an informative piece to inform of fear and motivation.
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