Abstract:The intent of this article is to analyze the first speech of Prime Minister Mario Draghi during the motion of confidence request in the Italian Senate on February 17, 2021. This analysis intends to use the methodological tools present in the Principles of Cooperation (Grice, 1975), the speech acts categories (Searle, 1965), the politeness linguistic of Brown and Levinson (1987) with the addition of Schartz's concept of "collective face" (1992) and intercultural communication (Hofstede, 2011). The originality o… Show more
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