Which persuasion in which discourse? An analysis of how politicians adapt their persuasive strategies according to the discourse type

In this paper, I will look into how politicians adapt their strategies of persuasion according to the context in which they communicate. Indeed, cognitive corpus linguistics research has shown that considerable genre-differences can be found in the ways in which certain linguistic phenomena function (Gries 2013). It has also highlighted that, given the situatedness of cognition (Mandelblit & Zachar 1998: 253), we should adopt an...