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Săftoiu, Răzvan. 2015. Split voices in political discourse. Language and Dialogue 5 (3) : 430–448.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/ld

Annotation

This paper considers dialogue in Parliament as central, because it is the dialogic instances that bring to the fore the multivocality of political discourse, and it will show there are “other voices [speaking] through the speaking voice” (Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu 2012, 152). It also starts from the premise that, although restrictive and context dependent, in political discourse one may identify instances of the self. Politicians exploit language use with the purpose of creating emotions in their audience and their aim is to influence public opinion, to make voters think he/ she is “the right man at the right time”. Using extracts from the speeches delivered by a controversial Romanian politician, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, the paper will dwell upon the active management of voices in discourse as well as on projection of self into discourse with a view to discussing them as strategies used to construct a politician’s professional identity.