In:Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean
Eleonora Esposito
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 93] 2021
► pp. 79–110
Chapter 4The leader
Published online: 27 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.93.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.93.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Strategies of positive self-presentation
- 4.1.1The mother rhetoric in the 2007 campaign
- 4.1.2From “mother” to “woman” in the 2010 campaign
- 4.1.3Kamla and the women in partnership
- 4.1.4Kamla as the angel of Trinidad and Tobago
- 4.2Strategies of negative other-presentation
- 4.2.1“Manout” and the discursive construction of the out-group
- 4.2.2“The Emperor has no clothes”
- 4.2.3Patrick Manning, Eric Williams and the “Inferiority complex”
- 4.2.4Trinidadian Creole as a strategy of demontage and bonding
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