List of tables
Table 1.Share of votes and seats in general elections in Trinidad and Tobago
(2000–2010) (Psephos Election Archive)
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Table 2.Venue and date of Persad-Bissessar’s speeches in the 2010 election
campaign
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Table 3.Multimodal data from the People’s Partnership campaign
66
Table 4.Discursive strategies and devices in DHA (in Reisigl and Wodak 2015)
72
Table 5.Taxonomy of representational structures (in Royce 1999)
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Table 6.Taxonomy of interactive meanings (in Royce 1999)
77
Table 7.Taxonomy of compositional meaning
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Table 8.Persad-Bissessar self-presentation as mother-politician in the 2007 chaguanas
speech
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Table 9.Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s picong against manning
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Table 10.Nomination and predication strategies in the KPB 2010 corpus
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Table 11.Frequency of personal pronouns in Persad-Bissessar’s campaign
speeches
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Table 12.Social actors in king’s I Have a Dream and Persad-Bissessar’s chaguanas
speech
154
Table 13.The discursive construction of a common national body in King’s and Persad-Bissessar’s speeches
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Table 14.Intertextual references to the national anthem in Persad-Bissessar’s
chaguanas speech
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