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Publication details [#57485]

Jalilifar, Alireza and Maryam Alavi-Nia. 2013. We believe the Iranian nation can: The manifestation of power in Iranian televised presidential debates. Language & Communication 33 (1) : 8–25.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hedge | language use | political language | power | television debate

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper shows how Ahmadinejad’s hedging and boosting strategies were subject to major fluctuations from one Iranian televised presidential debate to another (in 2009), resulting in varied power displays via language.