Leadership in numbers The pragmatics of We in Singapore’s NDR
speeches (2004–2023)

J 2025

Leadership in numbers The pragmatics of We in Singapore’s NDR speeches (2004–2023)

CHEN, Khin-Wee a Ali A. AL-KANDARI

Základní údaje

Originální název

Leadership in numbers The pragmatics of We in Singapore’s NDR speeches (2004–2023)

Autoři

CHEN, Khin-Wee a Ali A. AL-KANDARI

Vydání

Journal of Language and Politics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025, 1569-2159

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50802 Media and socio-cultural communication

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.600 v roce 2024

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25089.che

Klíčová slova anglicky

political pragmatics; personal pronouns; corpus linguistics; leadership discourse; Southeast Asian politics; deixis and modality

Štítky

EV_FSS25

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 9. 12. 2025 12:27, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

This paper examines how former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong strategically deployed personal pronouns — especially we — in National Day Rally (NDR) speeches (2004–2023) to construct authority, manage affect, and negotiate state–citizen alignment. Situated within Singapore’s hybrid political system, the study adopts a corpus pragmatic approach combining frequency analysis, collocate profiling, and a substitution-based method to track inclusive and exclusive we alongside broader patterns of I, you, and they. Informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), deixis, and modality, the analysis shows that we functions as an indexical pivot modulating institutional stance around elections, milestones, and crises: exclusive we dominates early speeches and reflects technocratic leadership, while inclusive forms rise during periods of public outreach and pandemic response. These findings demonstrate that pronoun choice acts as a rhetorical device for distributing agency, calibrating legitimacy, and adapting leadership style to political context.

Citovat

CHEN, Khin-Wee a Ali A. AL-KANDARI. Leadership in numbers The pragmatics of We in Singapore’s NDR speeches (2004–2023). Journal of Language and Politics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. ISSN 1569-2159. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25089.che.

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CHEN, Khin-Wee a Ali A. AL-KANDARI. Leadership in numbers The pragmatics of We in Singapore’s NDR speeches (2004–2023). \textit{Journal of Language and Politics}. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. ISSN~1569-2159. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25089.che.

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