Some functions of self-reference in diplomatic addresses

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Authors

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ Olga

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Discourse and Interaction
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords coherence - interaction - self-reference - discourse strategy - stance - evaluation - speaking style
Description This paper investigates some functions of pronominal self-reference in political speeches in an international institutional context, thus aiming to contribute to the study of evaluation in political discourse. A total of thirty speeches by the last three Directors-General of UNESCO is used as a corpus for the present research. The analysis - which is undertaken from the point of view of pragmatics and stylistics - studies the role of personal pronouns used for self-referencing and the expressions with which they typically collocate as markers of positioning the self, expressing stance and organising discourse. Furthermore, it addresses idiosyncratic variation in the choice of self-reference devices in the addresses of the three speakers.
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