"If you and I, if we, in this later day, lose that sacred fire . . .": Perspective in political interviews

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 269-287

  Suleiman, Camelia ^a   O'Connell, Daniel C ^b   Kowal, Sabine ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Perspective; Political discourse; TV interview

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TELEVISION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; HUMANS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TELEVISION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036579997     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015592129296     Document Type: Article

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