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Publication details [#57356]

Vertommen, Bram. 2013. The strategic value of pronominal choice: Exclusive and inclusive “we” in political panel debates. Pragmatics 23 (2) : 361–383.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience design | influencing | political discussion | pronoun | talk show

Language as a subject

Dutch, Belgian

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper discussses the strategic use of the exclusive and inclusive first person plural pronoun “we/wij”, in political panel debates amongst Belgian government and opposition party members in the televised Flemish talk show De Zevende Dag.