Blair speeches in a polyphonic perspective

NOTs and BUTs in visions on Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID21179596
AuthorsKjersti Fløttum (0000-0003-0834-824X, University of Bergen), Dag Stenvoll
Year2009
Volume8
Issue2
Pages269-286
Publication date2009-09-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.8.2.05flo
OpenAlexW2015349986
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited9

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

Linguistics · Negation · Polyphony · Sociology · Spell · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence

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