Prvo lice jednine u crnogorskom parlamentarnom diskursu
First person singular in montenegrin parliamentary discourse

Summary/Abstract: The use of certain personal pronouns and the person of the verb, i.e. personality, may encode a political ideology and answer the question of whether it is personality-driven politics, politics of group identity or politics based on the polarisation of the positively self-presented in-group and the negatively presented out-group. With this in mind, we explain the use of the pronoun I and the verbs in the first person singular on a corpus of the budget debate conducted in the Parliament of Montenegro in 2009. Comparing the spontaneous discourse of rebuttals with that of parliamentary speeches, which has been prepared in advance, we conclude that there are considerable differences between the two, suggesting that MPs consciously avoid the use of the I-perspective, i.e. that they are aware of the significance of personality and the role that language plays in the creation of political reality. Thus, the first person singular verbs are prevailingly used as metadiscourse.

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