When “We Believe that ...”: The Role of Collective “we” in the Dialogic Negotiation in Hard News Discourse

The present paper examines the occurrence of collective self expressed by the first person plural “we” in British broadsheet hard news reports. Given that “we” typically embraces “I” and the “non-I”, and is viewed in contradistinction to “others”, it is subjective and dialogic (inter-subjective) in...

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Main Author: Nádraská Zuzana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-07-01
Series:Prague Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2020-0008