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Publication details [#51770]

Reyes-Rodriguez, Antonio. 2008. Discursive strategies in Chavez's political discourse: voicing, distancing, and shifting. Critical Discourse Studies 5 (2) : 133–152.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | footing | political language | political speech | speaker's position

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on Goffman's footing idea and Bakhtin's ideas of heteroglossia and double voicing, this study presents a new theoretical model explaining discursive strategies in political speech, applying it to Chavez's intervention at the UN in 2005.