Publications

Publication details [#53033]

Fløttum, Kjersti. 2010. EU discourse: Polyphony and unclearness. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (4) : 990–999.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | implicitness | political speech | polyphony | text analysis

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on a linguistic polyphony perspective as developed in the ScaPoLine theory, this study of EU political speeches of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, unveils various types of hidden interaction and thus discloses implicit and unclear messages.