One tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. Despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate hedges in relation to political power, face, and politeness are tremendously few. To this aim, four political interviews were selected from CNN and BBC websites on the basis of t...

Speech can be divided into discourse genres based on the contextual environment it occurs in (e.g. political speech, sport commentary speech, etc.). The present study investigated whether listeners can distinguish between speech from different discourse genres on the basis of acoustic prosodic cues only 1. In a perception experiment with delexicalized speech 70 listeners with varying experience...

First, a suggested definition of discourse: at its most general, discourse can be understood as any system of signs, whether spoken, written, or otherwise. I say 'otherwise', because it is possible to 'read' town planning or architecture, for example, as systems that reflect and enact political values and practices. Some use the term a little more specifically; so, for example a phrase such as ...

K E Y W O R D S : immigrants, immigration, Latinos, metaphor, metonymy, political discourse, print media, Proposition 187, public discourse, racism Discourse & Society Copyright © 1999 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) Vol 10(2): 191–224 [0957-9265 (199904) 10:2; 191–224; 006826] ingly by voters in spite of a great deal of pre-election controversy surrounding its provi...

the aim of this paper is to show that modern media are not totally independent of the older media and that there is, specifically, a kind of language transfer from older media such as television to the modern ones. although internet users enjoy relatively more freedom in the virtual reality public domains compared with real public domains, their political communications in negotiation rooms are...