In political discourse, language is often manipulated to achieve one’s own political end. The present study aims at investigating the manipulation of person deixis in the United States political discourse around the Ukranian-Russian war. Through the framework of corpus linguistics, the author will analyse the use of pronouns in a corpus of speeches made at the United States Senate during the first year of conflict from the representatives of the two major parties of the United States: Democrat and Republican. The corpus includes the speeches delivered between February 2022 and February 2023 in relation to the Ukranian-Russian war. By means of a corpus-assisted approach, this research will delve into the qualitative and quantitative aspects of how political representatives employ person deixis to construct various facets of identity and sway the audience towards embracing a particular perspective.
Il discorso politico spesso denota come il linguaggio venga manipolato per raggiungere un proprio fine. Questo studio indaga la manipolazione della deissi nel discorso politico Statunitense in merito alla guerra Russo-Ucraina. Utilizzando tecniche di linguistica dei corpora, questo articolo analizza l’uso dei pronomi nei discorsi pronunciati al Senato degli Stati Uniti durante il primo anno di conflitto Russo-Ucraino dai rappresentanti dei due maggiori partiti Statunitensi: Partito Democratico e Partito Repubblicano. Attraverso un approccio corpus-assisted, questa ricerca approfondisce gli aspetti qualitativi e quantitativi di come i rappresentanti politici utilizzino la deissi per costruire un’identità e influenzare gli ascoltatori guidandoli verso una particolare prospettiva.
Framing otherness in the US political discourse around the Ukranian-Russian war. The case of pronouns
Simi Nicoletta
2024-01-01
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In political discourse, language is often manipulated to achieve one’s own political end. The present study aims at investigating the manipulation of person deixis in the United States political discourse around the Ukranian-Russian war. Through the framework of corpus linguistics, the author will analyse the use of pronouns in a corpus of speeches made at the United States Senate during the first year of conflict from the representatives of the two major parties of the United States: Democrat and Republican. The corpus includes the speeches delivered between February 2022 and February 2023 in relation to the Ukranian-Russian war. By means of a corpus-assisted approach, this research will delve into the qualitative and quantitative aspects of how political representatives employ person deixis to construct various facets of identity and sway the audience towards embracing a particular perspective.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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