In this article we examine some linguistic characteristics of two speeches made by Tony Blair, in the British (2004) and the European (2005) parliaments. These speeches can be characterised as visionary speeches on Europe and European integration. By introducing a polyphonic perspective, we will point to specific linguistic features, such as polemic negation by ‘not’ and contrastive-concessive constructions by ‘but’, revealing different types of hidden interaction in which explicit and implicit voices are interwoven. Combined with the identification of pronominal references (to self and others), this perspective helps to spell out the complex relationship between text and context, in particular how to define a relevant context in a text analysis, and how the text itself constitutes its context. The theoretical framework used for analysing the speeches will be linguistic polyphony, as developed in the ScaPoLine theory.
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Fløttum, Kjersti. 2005b. MOI et AUTRUI dans le discours scientifique: l’exemple de la négation NE�PAS. In: Jacques Bres, Patrick Pierre Haillet, Sylvie Mellet, Henning Nølke, and Laurence Rosier (eds). Dialogisme, polyphonie: approches linguistiques. Duculot, 323—337.
Fløttum, Kjersti. 2006. Interrelation de voix internes et externes dans le discours. In: Laurent Perrin (ed). Le sens et ses voix. Metz: Recherches Linguistiques (281), 301—322.
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Kinn, Torodd. 2005. Plays of we-hood: What do we mean by we? Akademisk Prosa 3,129—142.Skrifter fra KIAP. University of Bergen.
Svensson, Peter and Dag Stenvoll. 2007. Contextualisation of text, textualisation of context. Paper delivered atthe EURUN workshop on text/context, Bergen May 3rd 2007.
Wodak, Ruth and Gilbert Weiss2004. Visions, Ideologies and Utopias in the Discursive Construction of European Identities: Organizing, Representing and Legitimizing Europe. In: Martin Pütz, JoanneNeff-van Aertselaer, and Teun Adrianusvan Dijk (eds). Communicating Ideologies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse, and Social Practice. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Wodak, Ruth and Gilbert Weiss2005. Analysing European Union discourses. In: Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton (eds). A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, Methodology and Interdisciplinarity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 121—135.
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