Publications

Publication details [#56499]

Fetzer, Anita and Peter Bull. 2012. Doing leadership in political speech: Semantic processes and pragmatic inferences. Discourse & Society 23 (2) : 127–144.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | interactional sociolinguistics | political speech | self-reference | verb

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores leadership organization in interactional–sociolinguistic terms, in the context of 15 political speeches produced by leading politicians from the three main British political parties.