| Title: | Analyzing Political Discourse as a Macro Speech Act |
| Author: | Stanca Măda |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXIII (1-2), Section The Dynamics of Speech Acts in Discourse, p. 133-146 Speech Acts across Time and Space / Actes de language à travers le temps et l’espace Edited by Andra Vasilescu and Cameron Taylor |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | By analysing several partisan political speeches delivered by Romanian Members of the Parliament (MPs) in a session dedicated to the debate and vote of investiture for a new government (28.12.2004), the paper aims at demonstrating their role as macro speech acts. The corpus covers complex discursive functions (agenda setting, debates, decision making, or proclaiming), suitable for both a quantitative analysis (the frequency of speech acts, according to Searle’s (1969) typology, for each category of speakers) and a qualitative one (how the macro speech act is built by means of political speeches). The distribution of the speech acts is correlated with the communicative strategies assigned to each role (the chair, the designated Prime Minister, the MPs from the government coalition, the MPs from the opposition, others). The discussion focuses on ways in which politicians do complex identity work (building and maintaining personal, group, and institutional identity), manage face-work, and construct power relations. |
| Key words: | political discourse, macro speech act, Romanian Parliament, communicative roles, identity work |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 0 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 61, 2018). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2018 | LR, LXVIII (1), 3-159 | 2019 |
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