Publications
Publication details [#44136]
Govindasamy, Subra and Mahmud Hasan Khan. 2006. Levels of explicitness in political speeches. Multilingua 25 (1/2) : 143–165. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
As the variety of political leaders' hegemonic power largely defines their exploitation of performatives, that is explicitly or implicitly, this paper analyzes and compares the usage of performatives by the current Prime Ministers of respectively Malaysia and Bangladesh.