‘Return to the International Family of Democracies’: Keyness Factor in the International Speeches of the Baltic Presidents
Journal: Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture
Year: 2022

Presidential speeches as a type of political discourse are aimed not only at the negotiation and construction of the national identity of a nation-state at a local level but also at the representation and shaping of the national identity internationally. The presidents of the Baltic States have represented their individual, collective and regional identities in the international gatherings of world leaders since the restoration of independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Un