Interpersonal meanings in the genre of diplomatic addresses

Autoři:

V časopise:

Ročník: 
35

Vydavatel:

Místo vydání:

Rok vydání:

Strany: 
129-143
ISBN/ISSN: 
0524-6881 (vyhledej v knihovnách)

Typ publikace:

Jazyk:

Klíčová slova:

Typ záznamu:

Abstrakt: 

This article is concerned with the construction of interpersonal relations in a relatively neglected genre of political discourse – opening addresses delivered by Directors-General of UNESCO at international conferences and meetings – arguing that the genre-specific distribution of interpersonal cues in addresses enhances the perception of coherence. While exploring the communicative purpose and the rhetorical structure of addresses, the analysis relates the rhetorical moves of the genre to communicative functions of language conveying interpersonal meanings and considers their contribution to the perception of discourse coherence. The findings of the analysis show that owing to the ritualistic character of addresses, interpersonal meanings contributing to the perception of coherence convey a continuous appeal to the audience related to claiming common ground and shared ideology, and a consistent subjective evaluation of social actors, their actions and relations by the speaker.

Bibliografie: 

Austin, John (1962) How to Do Things with Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bhatia, Vijay (2004) Worlds of Written Discourse. A Genre-Based View. New York: Continuum.
Bhatia, Vijay (1993) Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings. London: Longman.
Brown, Penelope and Steven Levinson (1987) Politeness. Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bublitz, Wolfram (1997) ‘Introduction: Views on coherence.’ In: Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Elija Ventola (eds). Coherence in spoken and written discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-7.
Bull, Peter and Anita Fetzer (2006) ‘Who are we and who are you? The strategic use of forms of address in political interviews.’ Text & Talk 26-1. 3-37.
Carter, Ronald and Michael McCarthy (2006) Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dedaíć, Mirjana N. (2006) “Political Speeches and Persuasive Argumentation.” In: Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Vol. 9. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 700-707.
Donahue, Ray T. and Michael H. Prosser (1997) Diplomatic Discourse: International Conflict at the United Nations – Addresses and Analysis. London: Ablex.
Dontcheva-Navratilova, Olga (2009) ‘Building up discourse coherence: Creating identities in political speeches.’ In: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and Renata Povolná (eds) Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 97-119.
Dontcheva-Navratilova, Olga. (2008) ‘Forms of address and self-reference and other-reference in political speeches. ’ In: Anna Grmelová, Libuše Dušková, Mark Farrell, Renata Pípalová, (eds) Plurality and Diversity in English Studies. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 70-80.
Dontcheva-Navratilova, Olga (2007) ‘On coherence in written discourse.’ In: Josef Schmied, Christoph Haase, and Renata Povolná (eds). Complexity and Coherence: Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 127-145.
Duranti, Alessandro (2006) ‘Narrating the political self in a campaign for U.S. Congress.’ Language in Society 35, 467-497.
Chilton, Paul (2004) Analysing Political Discourse. London: Routledge.
Chilton, Paul and Christina Schäfner (2002) Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Edge, Julian and Sue Wharton (2001) ‘Patterns of text in teacher education.’ In: Scott, Michael and Thompson, Geoff (eds) Patterns of Text. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 255-286.
Fetzer, Anita (2002) “Put bluntly, you have something of a credibility problem”: Sincerity and credibility in political interviews. In Paul Chilton and Christina Schäfner (eds). Politics as Text and Talk. Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 173-202.
Flowerdew, Lynne (2008) Corpus-Based Analysis of the Problem-Solution Pattern. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gosden, Hugh (1993) ‘Discourse Functions of Subject in Scientific Research Articles.’ Applied Linguistics 14/1, 56-75.
Halliday, Michael A. K. (1985) An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Edward Arnold.
Helmbrecht, Johannes (2002) ‘Grammar and Function of We.’ In: Anna Duzsak (ed.) Us and Others. Amsterdam: John Bemjamins, 31-50.
Hoey, Michael (2001) Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis. London, New York: Routledge.
Hoey, Michael (1983) On the Surface of Discourse. London: George Allen and Unwin.
Jakobson, Roman (1990) On Language. London, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lyons, John (1977) Semantics, vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Povolná, Renata (2007) ‘Aspects of coherence in spoken discourse.’ In: Josef Schmied, Christoph Haase, and Renata Povolná (eds). Complexity and Coherence: Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 107-125.
Povolná, Renata (2009) ‘Exploring interactive discourse markers in academic spoken discourse.’ In: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and Renata Povolná (eds) Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 60-80.
Searle, John (1991) ‘Indirect Speech Acts.’ In: Steven Davis (ed.) Pragmatics. A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 265 – 277.
Seidlhofer, Barbara and Henry Widdowson (1997) ‘Coherence in summary: The contexts of appropriate discourse.’ In: Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Elija Ventola (eds). Coherence in spoken and written discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 205-219.
Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie (1997) ‘Modal (un)certainty in political discourse: A functional account.’ Language Sciences, 19/4, 341-356.
Swales, John M. (2004) Research Genres. Exploration and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swales, John M. (1990) Genre Analysis. English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Trosborg, Anna (2000) ‘The inaugural address.’ In: Analysing Professional Genres. Amsterda/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 212-145.
Urbanová, Ludmila (2008) Stylistila anglického jazyka. Brno: Barrister & Principal.
Urbanová, Ludmila (2003) On Expressing Meaning in English Conversation. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.