Publications

Publication details [#52514]

Fetzer, Anita. 2008. “And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It”: The Communicative Function of Cognitive Verbs in Political Discourse. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27 (4) : 384–396.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive style | commitment | communicative function | political discussion | verb

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that in political discourse, cognitive verbs tend to co-occur with other linguistic devices to express commitment; their particularized usage, inviting addressees to support the speaker's stance, is given a contextualization device status.