Explore how Tim Collins addresses his troops in a motivational speech

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Explore how Tim Collins addresses his troops in a motivational speech

Tim Collins utilises many effective language devices to motivate and inspire his troops in the speech. First of all, you can see he emphasises unity through his word choice: he says "We are going into Iraq". In the transcript the word "We" is in bold which means that he put emphasis on it through his tone of voice which again reinforces unity further. This gives a sense of unity and empowers the troops through a sense of security which is gained by the feeling that they are all in this together.

He also extensively uses emotive language : He is sensitive towards his troops' feelings and emotions as he says "those of them who do not wish to go on that journey we will not send them" this shows that he cares for his troops. However, it could be argued that he is isolating those who are not going as he uses "them" when he could have said "us" saying "those of them" makes it sound as if he is isolating them. He demands his troops are "magnanimous in victory". The use of the complex emotive