A Pragmatic Approach towards the Presidential Address for the New Year
A Pragmatic Approach towards the Presidential Address for the New Year

Author(s): Valentina Ciumacenco
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: presidential address; discourse analysis; argumentation; discursive structure; modality.
Summary/Abstract: This paper outlines the distinctive attributes of some presidential addresses offered on the occasion of New Year’s Eve. The article contains both theoretical and empirical parts. First we enumerate a number of general aspects that are characteristic to any political speech broadly speaking, then we contrast these with the results obtained from our discourses analysis applied to Romanian and Moldovan presidential speeches. A special focus has been placed on the argumentative structure, lexical traits, and the use of various types of modalization/modulation.

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