Under `Pronounce' we are concerned with formulations by which speakers/writers interpolate themselves directly into the text as the explicitly responsible source of the utterance. This `pronouncement' may take the form of an explicit interpolation of the speaker into the text (`I'd say this will lead to mistrust.'), an intensifying comment adjunct (`Really, this will lead to mistrust'), stress on the auxiliary (`This did lead to mistrust'), or through structures such as `It's a fact that...'. (See Fuller 1995: Chapter 4 for a discussion of `interpolation'.) Such formulations are dialogistically prospective. The author thereby increases the interpersonal cost of any rejection/doubting of their utterance in future communicative exchanges, rendering such a direct challenge to the author's dialogic position. Of course, through such a strategy, by confronting the possibility of rejection, the author integrates that possibility into the text and thereby acknowledges the dialogistic diversity of meaning making in socially diverse social contexts.
