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Mandela speaks to the nation

The use of metalingual mitigation markers to unify the audience

Abstract

This chapter investigates metalingual mitigation markers, discursive strategies that entice the audience to think and feel in unison, and dress their thoughts and emotions in national colours. I focus on such markers employed by the South African president Nelson Mandela in his annual speeches to the national parliament, 1994–1999. Metalingual mitigation markers are shown to help the speaker hold the floor, redress the potential face threats, and unify the hearers into a community to which the speaker belongs.

Abstract

This chapter investigates metalingual mitigation markers, discursive strategies that entice the audience to think and feel in unison, and dress their thoughts and emotions in national colours. I focus on such markers employed by the South African president Nelson Mandela in his annual speeches to the national parliament, 1994–1999. Metalingual mitigation markers are shown to help the speaker hold the floor, redress the potential face threats, and unify the hearers into a community to which the speaker belongs.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Politics and discourse in South Africa 1
  5. Mandela speaks to the nation 21
  6. Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa 43
  7. To be or not to be ‘African’ 67
  8. De- and recontextualising xenophobia 87
  9. “Xenophobia is an African sickness; a greater African disease” 113
  10. From sexual deviants to politically emancipated queers 147
  11. ‘Mother of the nation’ 169
  12. Trade unions in South Africa and the discourse of the neoliberal state 201
  13. Emzabalazweni 221
  14. Contributors 247
  15. Index 249
Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.65.02ded

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Politics and discourse in South Africa 1
  5. Mandela speaks to the nation 21
  6. Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa 43
  7. To be or not to be ‘African’ 67
  8. De- and recontextualising xenophobia 87
  9. “Xenophobia is an African sickness; a greater African disease” 113
  10. From sexual deviants to politically emancipated queers 147
  11. ‘Mother of the nation’ 169
  12. Trade unions in South Africa and the discourse of the neoliberal state 201
  13. Emzabalazweni 221
  14. Contributors 247
  15. Index 249
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