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Strategic forms of other-reference in political speeches
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This paper aims to contribute to the study of discourse strategies indicating the speakers relations with the audience in political discourse by investigating some functions of pronominal other-reference in diplomatic communication, a field of research which is still somewhat neglected in discourse studies. The study is applied to a corpus of thirty speeches delivered by the last three Directors-General of UNESCO at the opening of international conferences and meetings. The analysis - which is undertaken from the points of view of pragmatics and stylistics - studies the role of personal pronouns used for other-reference as markers for positioning the speaker with regard to the audience and expressing evaluation, while contributing to a coherent interpretation of discourse. |
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