There is a widespread belief that the tone of political debate in the US has become more
negative recently, in particular when Donald Trump entered politics. At the same time, there …

By the slant of their aims, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical arsenal to win
the acquiescence of the public. Hedges and boosters, two subcategories of metadiscourse …

Studies on presidential debates provide evidence that the use of boosters helps to convey
strong emphasis on candidates' ideology. This persuasive strategy is best portrayed through …

This PhD thesis, entitled TRANSITIVITY, no stone left unturned: Introducing flexibility and
granularity into the framework for the analysis of courtroom discourse, considers four main …

Recapitulating the decade over which this bibliography has been compiled, it is my wish to
thank a number of important people for their support. The greatest source of inspiration for …

The current study scrutinizes the use of hedges and boosters by the Iranian 2009
presidential election winner (Ahmadinejad) in three presidential debates in which he …

Politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their
audience. To name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with …

This chapter is part of a project on the linguistic behaviour of Irish female politicians in the
last two centuries. Researchers have argued for the existence of a distinctive female style as …

This article is a dual-case analysis of presidential campaign interviews conducted with
former President George HW Bush when he was campaigning for the Republican …

The term metadiscourse rarely appears in translation studies despite the continuously
growing body of research on discourse markers in different genres and through various …