The person in politics pronouns and political personalization in U.S. presidential campaigns Lilla Petronella Szabó

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szabó, Lilla Petronella, author.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture 107

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics--United States.

Communication in politics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Person.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Presidents--United States--Psychology.

Presidents.

Presidents--United States--Election.

United States--Politics and government--Psychological aspects.

United States.

Presidents--Psychology.

Presidents--Election.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company [2025]

Summary:

Drawing on a thorough account of how pronouns are used in American presidential nomination acceptance speeches and with what purpose, this work investigates how politicians emphasize individual leadership and craft collective identities with personal pronouns

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of tables

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Politics gone personal

1.2 Democracy in danger?

1.3 What is this book about?

1.4 Personalization in language

1.5 Stars and stripes

1.6 Talking for votes

1.7 The structure of the book

Chapter 2 Personalized politics

2.1 The Ages of political communication

2.2 What made politics personalized?

2.3 Of the People, by the People, for the People

and closer to the People?20

2.4 Personalization in theory

2.4.1 Institutional personalization

2.4.2 Media personalization

2.4.3 Behavioral personalization

2.4.4 Gendered personalization42

2.5 Personalization in practice

Chapter 3 The language of political personalization

3.1 Pointing to the person

3.2 Putting the person in the center

3.2.1 The types and tranformations of image schemas57

3.2.2 The center-periphery image schema

3.2.3 Image schemas and metaphors

3.3 The person in perspective

Chapter 4 The politics of pronouns, the pronouns of politics

4.1 Stuck in the middle

4.2 We, the People

and others?

4.3 Personalizing pronouns in nomination speeches

Chapter 5 Operationalizing pronouns in politics

5.1 The investigated speeches

5.2 Who are "we"? First-person plural categories

5.2.1 1PPFamily

5.2.2 1PPParty

5.2.3 1PPNation

5.2.4 1PPHumanity

5.3 Where pronouns are on the radial model

5.4 What pronouns stand for

5.5 Positioning with pronouns

5.5.1 The 1PS and 1PP of this research

5.5.2 The analysis of the 1PS

5.5.3 The analysis of the 1PP

5.5.4 Excluded categories

1. Direct quotes

2. Reference to two countries (United States and one other country)

3. Reference to individual states

4. Reference to military groups

5. Reference to groups of personal interest

Chapter 6 A linguistic analysis of personalization in politics

6.1 Party pronouns

6.2 1PS and 1PP plural pronouns over the years

6.3 The first-person plural

6.3.1 Results

6.3.2 Results

6.3.3 Results

6.3.4 Results

6.4 Data-driven results

6.5 Personal pronouns in context

6.5.1 Parents and children

6.5.2 My party and your party

6.5.3 Pronouns of present and past

Chapter 7 Political personalization in detail

7.1 Don't think of a political party91

7.2 Barack Obama's 2008 presidential nomination acceptance speech

7.3 Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential nomination acceptance speech

7.4 Party matters

7.5 Women, politics, and dangerous things

7.6 Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential nomination acceptance speech

7.7 Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential nomination acceptance speech

7.8 Gender matters

Chapter 8 Pronouns, politics, and personalization

8.1 Personalization in language and communication

8.2 To personalize or not

8.3 Limitations and recommendations for further research

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version:

Print version Szabó, Lilla Petronella The Person in Politics

ISBN:

9789027244604

902724460X

OCLC:

1542822598

Publisher Number:

CIPO000285164

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