Involvement and detachment in David Cameron and Ed Miliband’s political discourse. An analysis of deictic shields on the pronoun ‘I’ in UK 2015 General Election news interviews

The goal of my study is to investigate the relationship between selected deictic shields on the pronoun ‘I’ and the involvement/detachment dichotomy in a sample of television news interviews. I focus on the use of personal pronouns in political discourse. Drawing upon Caffi’s (2007) classification of mitigating devices into bushes, hedges and shields, I focus on deictic shields on the pronoun ‘I’: I examine the way a selection of ‘I’-related deictic shields is employed in a collection of news interviews broadcast during the electoral campaign prior to the UK 2015 General Election. My purpose is to uncover the frequencies of each of the linguistic items selected and the pragmatic functions of those linguistic items in the involvement/detachment dichotomy. The research is structured as follows. Chapter 1 provides an account of previous studies on the three main areas of research: speech event analysis, institutional interaction and the news interview, and the UK 2015 General Election television programmes. Chapter 2 is centred on the involvement/detachment dichotomy: I provide an overview of nonlinguistic and linguistic features of involvement and detachment at all levels of sentence structure. Chapter 3 contains a detailed account of the data collection and data analysis process. Chapter 4 provides an accurate description of results in three steps: quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and discussion of the pragmatic functions of the selected linguistic features of involvement and detachment. Chapter 5 includes a brief summary of the investigation, reviews the main findings, and indicates limitations of the study and possible inputs for further research. The results of the analysis confirm that, while some of the linguistic items examined point toward involvement, others have a detaching effect. I therefore conclude that deictic shields on the pronoun ‘I’ permit the realisation of the involvement/detachment dichotomy in the speech genre of the news interview.

La batalla de Santa Rosa : episodio dramático, en un acto y en verso /

No. 11, in vol. 10 with binder's title: Teatro Español : serie A.

Hojas de rosa, poesías.

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Solennizzandosi il giorno XII agosto MDCCCXLIV nel convento delle Clarisse in Lovere la professione di suor Maria Candida Rosa Molinari : canzone : dedicata al merito esimio del signore Giovita Cantoni.

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Coordinacion alfabetica de las voces del idioma maya que se hallan en el arte y obras del padre fr. Pedro Beltran de Santa Rosa, con las equivalencias castellanas que en las mismas se hallan,

"Coordinación alfabética de la colección de voces de la lengua maya, compuesta por varios autores, hallada en el archivo de libros bautismales del pueblo de Ticul en el año de 1836, copiada en dicho año por Juan Pío Pérez y arreglada en 1847 por el mismo": p. [123-289]

Amor libre; interviews voluptuosos con Roberto de las Carreras.

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Segunda serie de composiciones de la Sociedad Artistíco-Literaria establecida en el colegio de Santa Rosa, a cargo de Dolores Aquino.

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Satire, odie lettere di Salvator Rosa;

"Vita di Salvator Rosa" signed Giosuè Carducci.

Gressoney : Ivrea, Pont St-Martin, Issime, Gressoney St-Jean, La Trinité, Monte Rosa.

"Estratto dalla Guida illustrata della valle d'Aosta."

Results of automotive test equipment manufacturer interviews. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

La rosa de los vientos; novela.

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D.D. Josephi de Rosa ... Consultationes juris selectissimae : cum decisionibus super eis prolatis à supremis Neapolitani Regni Tribunalibus.

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De rosa Hierichuntina liber unus : in quo de eius natura proprietatibus, motibus, & causis pulchrè disseritur /

La rosa Anastatica hierochuntica tiene como nombre común rosa de Jericó

La Rosa de Alejandria : leyenda inédita, original y en verso /

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