WEAK EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN THE UK PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE
Discourse strategies of boosting and downtoning seem to play a paramount role in political discourse – persuading the electorate and defending one own’s position when ‘attacked’ liken the political battle to an actual war battle, whereby going on offensive and ducking into a trench, when the occasio...
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Language: | English |
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University of Montenegro
2014-11-01
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Series: | Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text |
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Online Access: | http://www.ll.ac.me/Issue%201/LL%201,%202014,%20Vukovic.pdf |