Essays about: "Heteroglossic engagement"

Found 1 essay containing the words Heteroglossic engagement.

  1. 1. Appraisal in Political Speech: A Comparative Discursive Study of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Richard Helander; [2014]
    Keywords : Appraisal theory; Appraisal framework; Political speech; Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Us and them; Positive self- and negative other presentation; Legitimisation; Winston Churchill; Tony Blair; Speaker alignment; Judgement; Heteroglossic engagement; Rhetoric; Politicial language; Speaker-addressee context creation; War rhetoric; Intervention rhetoric; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study investigated alignments in speeches held by two historically prominent politicians: Sir Winston Churchill and Tony Blair. The speeches that comprised the data of this study were a speech from 3 September, 1939, for the former, and a speech held on 18 March, 2003, for the latter. READ MORE