Keywords
political discourse analysis
metafunctions
strategic functions
gramática sistémico funcional
análisis del discurso politico
metafunciones
funciones estratégicas
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Abstract
This article seeks to analyze a presidential speech by relating certain categories of Halliday’s (2004) systemic functional grammar to the strategic functions of political discourse proposed by Chilton and Schäffner (2006). The goal is to show how the manipulation of discourse, the establishment of relationships dictated by power, the representation of agents and the misrepresentation of certain issues compared to other are instantiated by the linguistic resources speakers can select.References
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