Speaker
The speaker of the speech was famous American talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
Message
Her message was that in failure or success one should know the purpose of life.
Channel
The speech was broadcasted on the 362nd Commencement of Harvard in Tercentenary Theatre on May, 2013. The Harvard University management later uploaded it to YouTube (Harvard University, 2013).
Interference
Based on the literal meaning of interference, it can be argued that there was no such noise or interruption had occurred during the speech of Oprah Winfrey. However, there were little chats and applause given by the audience that could be considered as interference but not in a conventional manner.
Setting
The speech was given on the auspicious day of 362nd Commencement of the Harvard graduates and Oprah Winfrey was invited to make a concluded speech. The entire program was staged in the Tercentenary Theatre, an open platform with visitors’ gallery. Oprah Winfrey had shared her story and speeches in front of the newly graduate and the alumni of Harvard. Moreover, there were also the faculties and families of the graduated scholars present in the program. Therefore, it can be stated that the entire setting was based on a friendly and positive environment that was enhanced further with the golden words of Oprah Winfrey.
Audience
The 2013 graduate and doctorate student batches from all academic stream of Harvard accompanied with the Harvard alumni were presented in the program (Harvard University, 2013). Moreover, there are the families and the friends of the graduate and honorary doctorate students were there in the event. The Harvard faculties were also in the lists of the invited guests. Therefore, it was a huge educated gathering that was the major audience of the Harvard speech of Oprah Winfrey.
Feedback
As
far as the feedback or the reaction of the speech is concerned, it can be
asserted that the speech was a thrilling and highly motivating one that
enthralled the entire Harvard campus. It was associated with the huge applaud
and cheers from the audience in the middle and the end of the speech. The major
objective of the speech was to make the newly graduate student that there is no
such end of success and once someone realise the difference between achievement
and success then he or she would always strive for more (Harvard University,
2013). In course of the speech Oprah Winfrey also tried to influence the
audience with her own story where she faced both successes and failures
consecutively. However, she was succeed to hold her nerve in crisis period and
tried to find out the best possible ways to make things right. During the
speech she put some significant stress on the self-realisation and
self-evaluation process that are identified as the mainstay of moving forward.
The relevance and significance of the speech was that it tried to penetrate
into the mind of the newly graduate students of Harvard and intended to point
out their expertise and nourish it, rather than satisfying with such an
honourable degree. The philanthropic influence was also been highlighted.
Bibliography
Novák-Tót, E., Niebuhr, O., & Chen, A. (2017). A gender bias in the acoustic-melodic features of charismatic speech?. Proc. 18th Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, 2248-2252.
Nemer, D. (2015). Celebrities acting up: A speech act analysis in tweets of famous people. Social Networking, 5(01), 1.
Davis, P. (2018). They’re just trying to keep a black man down: the (not so) curious case of R. Kelly. Feminist Media Studies, 18(3), 494-497.
Harvard University. (2013). Oprah Winfrey Harvard Commencement speech [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMWFieBGR7c
