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Published online: 27 May 2021

Table 1.Share of votes and seats in general elections in Trinidad and Tobago (2000–2010) (Psephos Election Archive)37

Table 2.Venue and date of Persad-Bissessar’s speeches in the 2010 election campaign64

Table 3.Multimodal data from the People’s Partnership campaign66

Table 4.Discursive strategies and devices in DHA (in Reisigl and Wodak 2015)72

Table 5.Taxonomy of representational structures (in Royce 1999)76

Table 6.Taxonomy of interactive meanings (in Royce 1999)77

Table 7.Taxonomy of compositional meaning78

Table 8.Persad-Bissessar self-presentation as mother-politician in the 2007 chaguanas speech81

Table 9.Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s picong against manning106

Table 10.Nomination and predication strategies in the KPB 2010 corpus115

Table 11.Frequency of personal pronouns in Persad-Bissessar’s campaign speeches127

Table 12.Social actors in king’s I Have a Dream and Persad-Bissessar’s chaguanas speech154

Table 13.The discursive construction of a common national body in King’s and Persad-Bissessar’s speeches155

Table 14.Intertextual references to the national anthem in Persad-Bissessar’s chaguanas speech158