| Autor: |
Abuarrah, Sufyan |
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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics; Nov2016, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p195-218, 24p |
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Nowperforms an array of discursive functions in political discourse. This study examinednowin a number of political speeches that have global themes. It employed speech act theory and proximization theory to understand such functions in context. The main argument is thatnowprovides a transition point to the hearer’s cognitive space. This transition is essential to perform the speech act of acknowledging, thus changing the hearer’s mental representation prior to performing the act of directing.Nowcan also change the hearer’s mental representation by aligning analogous/incompatible or non-complementary propositions to increase his unexpectedness of their similarity/difference and therefore decrease his likelihood of non-compliance to an issued directive, soliciting of approval or legitimization of a policy.Nowas a marker of text coherence can help plan the discourse moves from the distribution of roles according to the speaker’s deictic center, through proximization of threat, to reaching legitimization of policy or calling for immediate action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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