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Blommaert, Jan. 1997. Whose background? Comments on a discourse-analytic reconstruction of the Warsaw uprising. Pragmatics 7 (1) : 69–81.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

backgrounding | contextualization | political speech | text analysis

Person as a subject

Galasinski, D.

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Various historical accounts of the Warsaw uprising are given, exposing Galasinski's biased analysis. It is argued that examining linguistic choices for unveiling presuppositions is not an objective method of analysis because it hinges on backgrounding given in the interpretational context.