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Banquet speech at Nobel Prize Award Ceremony – more than an acceptance speech

Acceptance speeches are ceremonial speeches that are delivered while receiving an award or honor. During the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony Laureates deliver acceptance speeches that are called banquet speeches. Even though the Nobel prize cannot be rejected, there are ways to refuse it. According to Salazar (2009), there are three ways to do it: to simply refuse it and not appear at the ceremony, to accept it and not appear, and to appear and retort. For analysis acceptance speeches of Nobel Laureates in Literature (N=6) and in Economy (N=10) were selected, that were held from 2003 until 2015. The first goal was to establish do banquet speeches have parts that are expected in acceptance speeches (Verderber et al., 2008): thanking the person or group bestowing the honor, expressing feelings about receiving the award, thanking those who contributed to achieving the honor or award, and acknowledging the competition. The second goal was to establish are the two main techniques of ceremonial speaking, identification and magnification (Osborn and al., 2008), present in the speeches of the Nobel Laureates, and if they are, how are they realized (with the use of narrative, anecdote, emphasizing the heroes, overcoming obstacles, etc.). The results show that minority of analysed speeches are by their content classical acceptance speeches and that most Laureates use publicity to express discontentment: with the political situation in their country or world, with the work of the Nobel Foundation, with the situation in their field of work. That is especially accentuated in the speeches of Laureates in Literature. Furthermore, in the analysed period several ways of refusing Nobel prize were noted, some of them already mentioned by Salazar (2009): refusal by not coming, sending someone on their behalf, and giving the speech but not thanking the Nobel Foundation or the Committee.

ceremonial speeches ; acceptance speeches ; Nobel Prize ; Literature ; Economy

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