Words Must Be Our Force: Exploring Modality Markers in Political Speeches

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Authors

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ Olga

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Topics in Linguistics
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords deontic modality - subjectivity - discourse coherence - political discourse - persuasion - interpersonal meanings
Description In political discourse, participants rely on the force of language to (re-)construct and negotiate their identities, social roles and views, and to (re-)define their interpersonal and institutional relations. Therefore, politicians try to impose on the audience an interpretative perception of the semantic unity and purposefulness of their discourse which reflects their communicative intentions with regard to the situational, socio-cultural and pragmatic context in which the interaction takes place. This paper explores the resources available for building a coherent subjective representation of a discourse world by investigating some markers of modality in speeches delivered by three Directors-General of UNESCO at the opening of international conferences and meetings.
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