The Politics of Pronouns in English Language: The Case of Politcal Speeches

In terms of Sociolinguistics, ‘we’ acts as a useful linguistics mediator between the speaker and the addressee showing the polite interaction of self and another as a result of modesty or sympathy. In Psychology, Egocentrism is the characteristics of regarding oneself as one’s opinions or interests as most important. An egocentric person has no theory of mind, cannot put himself/ herself in other people’s shoes, and believes everyone sees what he/she sees. The interaction of speech is egocentric in the sense that the speaker casts himself/herself in the role of ego and relates everything to their viewpoint. However, in Modern English the predominance of ‘I’ appears to be confirmed ironically in the written media, by its capitalization. Yet, it is in speech rather than writing that ‘I’ occurs most frequently. (I, we, you) are prototypically human referents and they have a wide variety of speech and written discourse situations not only as rhetorical but also as social connotation beyond the strictly denotation. Hence, these pronouns despite their diversity and their multiple roles, their flexibility in the minds and mouths for native and non-native speakers of English are often ignored by most grammarians, because their predominant focus is mostly on form than function, on sentence rather than discourse. Within this paper, it will be stated that going through Sociolinguistics and the various interaction of speech and languages, each person perceives the world from a particular point of view through space and time even in the political discourse. Keywords: Pronouns, Egocentrism, Politics, Sociolinguistics, English language.