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Publication details [#56818]

Jalilifar, Alireza and Maryam Alavi-Nia. 2012. We are surprised; wasn’t Iran disgraced there? A functional analysis of hedges and boosters in televised Iranian and American presidential debates. Discourse & Communication 6 (2) : 135–161.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

election manifesto | language and culture | metacommunication | persuading | television

Language as a subject

English, American | Iranian

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This crosslinguistic study compares the persuasive effect of metadiscursive hedging and boosting strategies exploited by the winners of American and Iranian presidential elections (Obama and Ahmadinejad) during one of their latest televised debates.