Description

• Title:
  Embedded discourse spaces in narrative reports
• Creator:
  Wieczorek, Anna Ewa
• Contributor:
  Department of Pragmatics, Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Lodz, Poland;
  Anna Ewa Wieczorek obtained her PhD in linguistics from the University of Lodz, Poland. Her research interests include pragma-cognitive approach to political discourse analysis, especially proximisation, inclusion and exclusion practices and storytelling techniques involving narrative reports in political speeches. Her most recent book is Clusivity: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation in Political Discourse (2013, Cambridge Scholars).
• Description:
  This article aims to discuss conceptual levels of narrative representations of utterances based on reported speech frames employed in presidential speeches. It adopts some assumptions from Chilton’s Deictic Space Theory and Cap’s Proximisation Theory, both primarily used to indicate exclusive reference, a clash of interests and threat-oriented conceptualisation of events. This article, however, extends their scope to include strategies for inclusion and positive image construction and makes a distinction between primary, secondary and tertiary embedding as discursive means that contribute to presentation of self and legitimisation. Data for this research comprise a corpus of 125 presidential speeches (25 per tenure) divided into three subcorpora: JKC – John Kennedy Corpus, BCC – Bill Clinton Corpus, and BOC – Barrack Obama Corpus. A total of 1251 instances of narrative reports have been analysed to investigate primary and multilevel embedding, which constitute the basis for this study.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne 4.0 Międzynarodowe;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
• Date:
  2021.09.07;
  2020
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  SAGE Publications
• Relation:
  Discourse Studies;22;
  2
• Subject:
  deictic centre;
  discourse analysis;
  discourse space theory;
  embedding;
  image construction;
  inclusion;
  legitimisation;
  narrative analysis;
  narrative reports;
  political discourse;
  presidential speeches;
  proximisation theory;
  reported speech frames;
  sayer;
  short narratives;
  storytelling
• Identifier:
  1461-4456;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/39000 ;
  1461-7080;
  10.1177/1461445619893776
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  image