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Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework
This paper examines the pragmatic functions of evidentiality categories in diplomatic discourse by illustrating a new classification of English evidentiality. It adopts a data-based approach by analyzing a corpus of thirty English political speeches from three US presidents (including Bush, Obama, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9751786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36533068 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019359 |
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description | This paper examines the pragmatic functions of evidentiality categories in diplomatic discourse by illustrating a new classification of English evidentiality. It adopts a data-based approach by analyzing a corpus of thirty English political speeches from three US presidents (including Bush, Obama, and Trump). The results show that: (i) Evidentiality can be classified into three categories: personal sources; shared sources and other sources. (ii) Besides the function of (de)legitimation, evidentiality can also be used to normalize the speaker’s ideology. (iii) Shared sources of evidentials reflect the speaker’s ideological bias, because they encode the speaker’s presupposition of authority, facts, or shared knowledge. (iv) Personal sources of evidentials mean that the speaker is more willing to take verbal responsibility. (v) Other sources of evidentials reflect the speaker’s lower responsibility for the information he/she offered. (vi) The use of the three evidential sources reflects the speakers’ different responsibilities for their propositions and reveals their subjective or intersubjective stance. |
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spelling | pubmed-97517862022-12-16 Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework Xu, Zhongyi Front Psychol Psychology This paper examines the pragmatic functions of evidentiality categories in diplomatic discourse by illustrating a new classification of English evidentiality. It adopts a data-based approach by analyzing a corpus of thirty English political speeches from three US presidents (including Bush, Obama, and Trump). The results show that: (i) Evidentiality can be classified into three categories: personal sources; shared sources and other sources. (ii) Besides the function of (de)legitimation, evidentiality can also be used to normalize the speaker’s ideology. (iii) Shared sources of evidentials reflect the speaker’s ideological bias, because they encode the speaker’s presupposition of authority, facts, or shared knowledge. (iv) Personal sources of evidentials mean that the speaker is more willing to take verbal responsibility. (v) Other sources of evidentials reflect the speaker’s lower responsibility for the information he/she offered. (vi) The use of the three evidential sources reflects the speakers’ different responsibilities for their propositions and reveals their subjective or intersubjective stance. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9751786/ /pubmed/36533068 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019359 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhongyi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Xu, Zhongyi Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework |
title | Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework |
title_full | Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework |
title_fullStr | Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework |
title_full_unstemmed | Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework |
title_short | Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework |
title_sort | pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: toward a new analytical framework |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9751786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36533068 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019359 |
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