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Publication details [#52510]

Bull, Peter. 2008. “Slipperiness, Evasion, and Ambiguity”: Equivocation and Facework in Noncommittal Political Discourse. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27 (4) : 333–344.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | commitment | evasion | face maintenance | political language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that in political discourse analysis (in casu of noncommittal political discourse in televised political interviews), equivocation theory's major propositions can be subsumed within the broader conceptual framework of face and face management.