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One of the most effective strategies in accomplishing legitimization effects in political discourse is proximization. It involves the speaker's presentation of events on the discourse stage as directly affecting the addressee, usually in a negative or a threatening way. Once the addressee has construed such threats as personally consequential, he or she becomes more likely to legitimize actions which...
The goal of this methodological-critical paper is to pave the way for a new cross-disciplinary model of analysis of political discourse. The model evolves gradually as the paper looks at the multi-faceted phenomenon of legitimization of actions sought by politicians in front of their audiences. To describe this phenomenon, the paper integrates a variety of linguistic and non-linguistic accounts. The...
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