In:The Person in Politics: Pronouns and political personalization in U.S. presidential campaigns
Lilla Petronella Szabó
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 107] 2025
► pp. 98–115
Chapter 5Operationalizing pronouns in politics
The method of a linguistic analysis
Published online: 25 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.107.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.107.c5
Article outline
- 5.1The investigated speeches: Corpus data
- 5.2Who are “we”? First-person plural categories
- 5.2.11PPFamily
- 5.2.21PPParty
- 5.2.31PPNation
- 5.2.41PPHumanity
- 5.3Where pronouns are on the radial model
- 5.4What pronouns stand for: Metonymy and pronominal reference
- 5.5Positioning with pronouns: Further methodological considerations
- 5.5.1The 1PS and 1PP of this research
- 5.5.2The analysis of the 1PS
- 5.5.3The analysis of the 1PP
- 5.5.4Excluded categories
- 1.Direct quotes
- 2.Reference to two countries (United States and one other country)
- 3.Reference to individual states
- 4.Reference to military groups
- 5.Reference to groups of personal interest
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