Bledar Toska
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bledar Toska plays a role.
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2015 … every time you’ve offered an opinion, you’ve been wrong: Obama dialogically interacting in the last 2012 presidential debate Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan, Maria-Ionela Neagu and Stanca Măda (eds.), pp. 55–84 | Article
This paper describes the function of some important metadiscoursal devices such as hedges, boosters, attitude markers and transition markers in Obama’s discourse in the last 2012 presidential debate. Given their relatively high frequency in his political discourse, I expect that these devices are… read more