Evidentiality in Ivanka's and Chelsea's Convention Speeches and Its Discursive Power

RAN Ya; LIU Cheng-yu

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RAN Ya, LIU Cheng-yu. Evidentiality in Ivanka's and Chelsea's Convention Speeches and Its Discursive Power[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2019, 35(1): 30-37.

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RAN Ya, LIU Cheng-yu. Evidentiality in Ivanka's and Chelsea's Convention Speeches and Its Discursive Power[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2019, 35(1): 30-37.

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Evidentiality in Ivanka's and Chelsea's Convention Speeches and Its Discursive Power

College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Received Date: 2018-07-09
Available Online: 2021-05-24

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This paper investigates evidentiality in the convention speeches of Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton during the 2016 American General Election and its discursive power,focusing on the evidential strategies employed by the two speakers to achieve their persuasive goals and then scrutinizing the information credibility and speakers' engagement indicated by the evidentials.The study suggests that each type of evidential markers realizes certain speech acts and eventually brings about some discursive power according to the polls and news from popular media.
- convention speeches,
- evidentiality,
- credibility,
- engagement,
- discursive power

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