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Publication details [#44708]

Lazuka, Anna. 2006. Communicative intention in George W. Bush's presidential speeches and statements from 11 September 2001 to 11 September 2003. Discourse & Society 17 (3) : 299–230.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | illocution, comprehension of | political speech | pragmatic interpretation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper draws on Bach and Harnish (1979)'s intention and inference approach to explore the pragmatic interpretation of utterances and specifically the apprehension of illocutionary intention in George W. Bush's speeches and statements from 11 September 2001 to 11 September 2003.