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<article-title>The Use of Pronouns in Political Discourse</article-title>
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<author>Maia Alavidze  </author>

<aff>Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia </aff>

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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>The paper deals with the use of pronouns in political discourse. Politics seems to be overwhelming the world and subsequently linguistic shows its great interest to it. Political linguistics is a field of discourse analysis which focuses on discourse in political forums (such as debates, speeches, and hearings) as the phenomenon of interest. The commitment to analyze political speeches often use concepts and techniques drawn from linguistics for the purpose of explaining political phenomena. Use of personal pronouns is very important to identify the intention of politicians. In the paper, I study the use of &#8220;I&#8221;, &#8220;we&#8221;, &#8220;you&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8221; separately and then how they occur in sequence and what is the purpose of the choice. The pronouns are used to construct politicians&#8217; image. In accordance with the research we can conclude that politicians tend to use the first person plural in most cases. Though we can say that during political speeches the choice of pronouns goes beyond their grammatical person, number and gender. They can be chosen for different reasons. They can be used to show the communicants&#8217; attitude, social status, gender, motivation and so on.  </p><p><i>Keywords: </i>Political discourse, Personal pronouns, Image. </p>
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