Research on the Construction and Characteristics of the Communication Value of Graduation Ceremony Speeches —A Case on Chinese universities Ceremony Speeches in 2021-2022
The graduation speech is an important part of the graduation ceremony of colleges anduniversities, and as an important form of communication to convey educational, ideological andpolitical values and social values in colleges and universities, previous studies on graduation speecheshave mostly focused on top universities in China. This study takes the number of likes as the sampleselection index, selects the most popular graduation ceremony salutations in China in 2021-2022 as theresearch object, uses the interactive ritual chain theory as the research framework, and employs contentanalysis, software analysis and case study analysis to explore the construction elements and valueperformance of the communication value of graduation ceremony salutations. The study found that thepopular graduation ceremony speech has symbolic value, cultural value and emotional value. Firstly,symbolic value is reflected in the fact that symbols are carriers of meaning and medium of emotion, sothe speakers use and even create shared symbols and emotional symbols, aiming at producing symbolicand emotional meanings and laying the foundation for the construction of rational identity andemotional consensus; secondly, the essence of cultural value is cultural identity, and graduation speechis the core part of the spiritual and institutional culture disseminated by colleges and universities, and asan important embodiment of cultural value Emotional value is the final purpose of graduation speechof colleges and universities, and the speech writer stimulates emotional energy through three stages ofemotional awakening, emotional enhancement and emotional identity, and forms a strong connectionwith the audience, which has the function of raising rational identity to emotional identity.