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Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. 2015. ‘Look who’s talking now’: A taxonomy of speakers in single-turn political discourse. Discourse Studies 17 (3) : 343–359.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

perspective | political speech | representational structure | speaker's position

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper presents a speaker in political speech-taxonomy from a socio-pragmatic view, that centers on the speaker’s appliance of other voices in reality representation.The selected corpus to examine and exemplify individual categories contains political speeches by three Democratic US Presidents: Kennedy, Clinton and Obama.