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This research has been financially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (Reference FFI2016-77941-P). Ana Albalat-Mascarell has been awarded with a FPU grant by the Spanish Government, Ministerio de Educacion Cultura y Deporte (Reference FPU14/06506).

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Self-representation in political campaign talk: A functional metadiscourse approach to self-mentions in televised presidential debates

Publicated to:Journal Of Pragmatics. 147 86-99 - 2019-07-01 147(), DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.05.011

Authors: Albalat-Mascarell, Ana; Luisa Carrio-Pastor, Maria

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Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Appl Linguist, Appl Linguist - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Appl Linguist, English Language - Author

Abstract

Self-mentions (i.e., first person pronouns and self-citations) have proven to be one of the most powerful ways of rhetorical self-projection in academic discourse and their role in the construction of a self that engenders credibility in more overtly persuasive genres, such as political debates, has been extensively studied, given the vast literature on pronouns in political discourse analysis and specifically on their uses in political debates. To gain a better insight into the ways in which politicians can build a credible ethos through a competent and authoritative presentation of themselves in electoral debates, this paper compares the frequency and rhetorical roles of the self-mentions used by the candidates of the two major political parties (i.e., Democrats and Republicans) during the debates held for the United States presidential election of 2016. The Republican candidates (i.e., Trump and Pence) were found to make a notably greater use of self-mentions than their Democratic counterparts (i.e., Clinton and Kaine). Significant differences were also found in the rhetorical roles most commonly adopted by each politician to convey authority through the use of exclusive pronouns and self-citations. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

DeixisDiscourseEthosGenderIdentityInterviewsPersuasionPhd thesesPolitical speechSelf-representationTelevised presidential debatesWritten

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal Of Pragmatics due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2019, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Artificial Intelligence.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.39. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 13.88 (source consulted: Dimensions Sep 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-09-07, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 20
  • Scopus: 21

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-09-07:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 96.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 96 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.75.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ALBALAT MASCARELL, ANA) and Last Author (Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa.