{"title":"I think and I know: Authority and solidarity in UK government Covid briefings","authors":"Jilan Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.02.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research examines the politicians' and experts’ use of the two evidential markers <em>I think</em> and <em>I know</em> for authority and solidarity in UK government Covid briefings based on a corpus-assisted analysis. It not only analyses their evidential constructions, but also explicates their discursive functions in the British cultural context when public health was under challenge. It aims to demonstrate the different epistemic and affective stances of British politicians and experts and to highlight the power of <em>I know</em> in displaying leadership and facilitating solidarity in the discourse of crisis. It may also shed light on the distinctive stance strategies of British public health discourse in terms of the two evidential markers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"223 ","pages":"Pages 31-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216624000201/pdfft?md5=9af2a53547e50e0342a3d6eea167f91f&pid=1-s2.0-S0378216624000201-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Pragmatics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216624000201","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This research examines the politicians' and experts’ use of the two evidential markers I think and I know for authority and solidarity in UK government Covid briefings based on a corpus-assisted analysis. It not only analyses their evidential constructions, but also explicates their discursive functions in the British cultural context when public health was under challenge. It aims to demonstrate the different epistemic and affective stances of British politicians and experts and to highlight the power of I know in displaying leadership and facilitating solidarity in the discourse of crisis. It may also shed light on the distinctive stance strategies of British public health discourse in terms of the two evidential markers.
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Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.
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