Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings.

This paper investigates how pronouns were used by UK government speakers to allocate responsibility to themselves and others in all 92 daily televised COVID-19 briefings that were held between March and June 2020. We identified the referent for every use of the first-person plural pronoun (1PL) as '...

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Publicado en:Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 76 - 92
Autores principales: Williams, Jamie, Wright, David
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2024
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