The Dialogical Identity of Pragmatic Markers in Political Argumentation

The purpose of this discussion is to test the hypothesis that politicians attempt to construct their own political identity in argumentation by dint of some strategic maneuvering and as a part of their verbal interaction with their audience. Pragmatic markers seem to assist in this entire communicative process. Empirical findings are based on the one-million-word Corpus of English Argumentation (CEA). The data analysis provides important illustrations, in which pragmatic markers contribute to the dialogical sphere of argumentative discourse and to the political identity construction in interpersonal communication.