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Quotations in political speeches and user comments
This paper examines how the communicative act of quotation may contribute to ordinary users’ discussion of
politics through user comments following up on government- and opposition-party speeches during a pre-election and a non-election
period in Britain. It analyses the linguistic formatting of the communicative act – as direct, indirect, mixed, hypothetical and
scare quotation – and its production-format-specific distribution in the speeches of the political elite and in ordinary-user
comments following up on the elite discourse. Particular attention is given to (1) references to the constitutive parts of the
communicative act of quotation, to its felicity conditions and to social-context coordinates, (2) the discursive functions which
quotation may fulfil in the two different contexts and timeframes, and (3) their perlocutionary effects.
Keywords: communicative action, context, elite political speech, perlocutionary effect, production format, quotation, social media, user comments
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Pragmatics meets mediated communicative action
- 3.Quotation as communicative action
- 4.Quotations in political speeches and users’ comments
- 4.1Data and method
- 4.2Linguistic formatting and distribution
- 4.3Discursive function
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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References
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