Publications

Publication details [#44073]

Duranti, Alessandro. 2006. Narrating the political self in a campaign for U.S. Congress. Language in Society 35 (4) : 467–497.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | election manifesto | political language | pragmatics | semantics2

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper employs narrative, pragmatic and semantic analysis to demonstrate how candidates in a Californian Congressional campaign in the mid 1990's explain and defend the coherence of their actions in their choice to compete for the office.