capturing reader perceptions of writer character (was: self-promotionn in written discourse)

[Zouhair Maalej]

Dear TIAN, Hailong,
I have been reading John Wilson's _Politically Speaking_ (1990, Basil
Blackwell) for a CDA course I teach.  Wilson devotes a chapter to "Political
Pronouns and Pragmatic Implications." The chapter alludes to the frequency
of pronouns in two American presidents' speeches.

You may also want to have a look at:

Pennycook, Alastair (1994). "The Politics of Pronouns." ELT Journal, 48: 2,
13-18.

I hope this will help you.
Regards
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Dr Zouhair Maalej,
Department of English, Chair,
Faculty of Letters,
University of Manouba,
Tunis-Manouba, 2010, Tunis, Tunisia.
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-----Original Message-----
From: tian hailong <THAILONG at PUBLIC1.TPT.TJ.CN>
To: DISCOURS at listserv.linguistlist.org <DISCOURS at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Date: Sunday, May 06, 2001 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: capturing reader perceptions of writer character (was:
self-promotionn in written discourse)


>Dear Jennifer and other Discourse members,
>I agree that a reader's perception of a writer's character is indeed
>difficult to gauge. I once examined twenty speakers' use of
>"I" or "we" in their speech in a radio program. I found that they use
>the pronouns differently, so diferently that it might be a kind of
idiolect.
>Through a questionaire I found that audience
>have different perceptions of the speakers' character or personality.
>In this study I tried to see some relationship between the use of pronoun
>and the display of the users' character. I would be happy to  know other
>studies that deal with this topic.
>
>TIAN, Hailong
>
>
>Jennifer Hrazdil wrote:
>
>> Dear Dr. Maalej and Discourse members,
>>
>> I am very interested to read your paper and would appreciate a hard-copy.
>> How to gauge a reader's perception of a writer's character is indeed a
>> difficult task.
>>
>> I have come across quite a few studies measuring reader/listener
perceptions
>> in the Impression Management literature of social psychology. From what I
>> can gather, these studies tend to involve administering empirically valid
>> and reliable questionnaires to research participants in an effort to
gauge
>> their perceptions of the writer's character. The texts on which the
>> perceptions of the writer are based are specially designed for the
>> experiment, and variation between texts tends to be restricted to
isolated
>> variables. (For example, in studies on reader impressions of resumes, a
base
>> resume might be created with one variable, in say Educational Background,
>> manipulated from resume to resume while everything else remains the
same.)
>>
>> I am interested to know whether any Discourse members are familiar with,
or
>> interested in, research gauging the reader's perceptions of the writer's
>> character in longer texts that have not been 'experimentally-modified'
>> (i.e., on authentic texts from multiple writers - where many, many
variables
>> differ from text to text)?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jennifer
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Zouhair Maalej <zmaalej at GNET.TN>
>> To: <DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 01:15
>> Subject: Re: self-promotionn in written discourse
>>
>> > Dear all,
>> > I have published a paper on self-promotional written discourse, with
>> special
>> > reference to dating ads or lonely heart ads:
>> >
>> > Maalej, Zouhair (1999). "Interpersonal Perception in Self-Promotional
>> > Discourse." The Tunisian Review of
>> > Modern Languages 9, 155-174.
>> >
>> > I was more interested in perception of males by females and vice versa.
If
>> > you are interested, I can send you a hard copy by snail-mail.
>> >
>> > I hope this will help you.
>> > Kind regards
>> > **********************
>> > Dr Zouhair Maalej,
>> > Department of English, Chair,
>> > Faculty of Letters,
>> > University of Manouba,
>> > Tunis-Manouba, 2010, Tunis, Tunisia.
>> > *********************************************
>> > Office phone: (?) 1 600 700  Ext. 174
>> > Office Fax: (?) 1 600 910
>> > Home Telefax: (?) 1 362 871
>> > E-mail: zmaalej at gnet.tn
>> > URL: http//: simsim.rug.ac.be/ZMaalej
>> > **********************************************
>> > CURIOSITY BRINGS JOY
>> > JOY BRINGS HEALTH
>> > HEALTH BRINGS LUCIDITY
>> > LUCIDITY BRINGS CURIOSITY
>> > ****************************************
>