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Factors pragmàtics de l'explicitació dels pronoms de subjecte de primera persona en el discurs parlamentari

Title in English Pragmatic Factors in the Explicitation of First-Person Subject Pronouns in Parliamentary Speech
Authors

KUZMOVÁ Lucie

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source ESTUDIOS ROMANICOS
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
web https://revistas.um.es/estudiosromanicos/article/view/576461/357681
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ER.576461
Keywords Pragmalinguistics; Facework; (Im)politeness; Analysis of parliamentary discourse; Personal pronouns; Explicit subject
Description The explicitation of the personal pronouns jo and nosaltres with the syntactic function of sentence subject in a pro-drop language like Catalan carries certain socio-pragmatic information related to the management of the face of the interlocutors. In the present study we look at the functions of the two subject pronouns in current Catalan parliamentary discourse. The analysis carried out allows us to verify that it is an important resource of the self-image of politicians, which allows them to highlight their attitude, their preferences or opinions, which can be individual or group. This strategic communicative behaviour often includes effects on the figure of other people involved in the communicative situation. The expression of the pronoun can serve to establish a contrast between the speaker and the others and can produce an impolite effect or, on the other hand, the pronoun can serve to maintain equilibrium between the images involved and, in this case, the effect can be polite.
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