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- Title
The Use of Linguistics in Indicating the Influence of Political Power in Shaping Politicians' Behaviour: The Case of Demetrios D. Bousdras.
- Authors
Katsara, Ourania
- Abstract
This study investigates the language used in Demetrios D. Bousdras's political speeches to Thessalian farmers during the period 1909-1917 by identifying language choices through the applications of appraisal theory and conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, 2003; Martin and White, 2005). Critical discourse analysis is also used to interpret and explain the sociopolitical context hidden in the discourse (Fairclough, 1989). Extracts from five political speeches selected from Bousdras's book (1951) were analysed. The language patterns drawn from the speeches' corpus have shown that Bousdras used language to communicate vision to the farmers. Implications of the findings indicate that intervening political structures, such as political regimes, parties and state structures can shape individual behaviour (Sotiropoulos and Bourikos, 2002).
- Subjects
POLITICIANS -- Psychology; POWER (Social sciences); LINGUISTICS research
- Publication
Linguistics Journal, 2016, Vol 10, Issue 1, p203
- ISSN
1718-2301
- Publication type
Article