Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses
Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 65] 2015. vii, 251 pp.
Mirjana N. Dedaić
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mirjana N. Dedaić plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
South Slavic Discourse Particles
Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 197] 2010. ix, 166 pp.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
2015 Mandela speaks to the nation: The use of metalingual mitigation markers to unify the audience Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 21–42 | Article
This chapter investigates metalingual mitigation markers, discursive strategies that entice the audience to think and feel in unison, and dress their thoughts and emotions in national colours. I focus on such markers employed by the South African president Nelson Mandela in his annual speeches to… read more
2015 Politics and discourse in South Africa Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2010 6. Reformulating and concluding: The pragmatics of the Croatian discourse marker dakle South Slavic Discourse Particles, Dedaić, Mirjana N. and Mirjana Mišković-Luković (eds.), pp. 109–131 | Article
While it is primarily a reformulator, the Croatian discourse marker dakle also has several other functional pragmatic ingredients. Dedaic considers these elements in her attempt to both give a unitary account of this discourse marker and to tease out, in a comparative analysis, whether particles… read more
2010 1. South Slavic discourse particles: Introduction South Slavic Discourse Particles, Dedaić, Mirjana N. and Mirjana Mišković-Luković (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article