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This chapter examines the referential domain, communicative function and perlocutionary effect of the first person plural pronoun we in dialogic and monologic British political discourse. Its methodological framework is an integrated one, combining interactional sociolinguistics, in particular co-occurrence and conversational inference, with quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis. The first part presents the methodological framework, focussing on the two types of discourse and the genre-specific distribution of self-references expressing collectivity considering the pronoun we<

Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Collective nouns --- Personal pronouns. --- English language --- 'we' (persoonlijk voornaamwoord). --- Discoursanalyse --- Collective nouns. --- Pronoun. --- Sociale aspecten. --- Pragmatics. --- Semantics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Language and languages --- Philosophy. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Pragmalinguistics --- Grammar, Comparative --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Collective nouns