European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practicesCornelia Ilie In the European tradition, parliaments are central political institutions that play a crucial role in the development of democratic societies. No other institution regularly offers a public arena for open deliberation and dissent, for discussing opposite points of view and for reaching compromise solutions between political adversaries. However, in spite of the growing visibility of modern parliaments, the study of parliamentary language use, interaction practices and discourse strategies has long been under-researched. Based on extensive parliamentary data, this book integrates a rich variety of innovative analytical approaches that explore the far-reaching impacts of parliamentary practices and linguistic strategies on current political action and interaction. Individual chapters problematise and re-evaluate the discourse-shaped identities and roles of Members of Parliament, the structure and functions of parliamentary discourse genres, interpersonal behaviour and intertextual meaning co-construction in post-Communist parliaments. They offer broad cross-cultural perspectives on parliamentary discursive psychology and argumentation. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of language and linguistics, rhetoric, political and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in language and politics. |
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Identity coconstruction in parliamentary discourse practices | 57 |
The construction of the addresser in the Portuguese Parliament | 79 |
Part II Ritualised strategies of parliamentary confrontation | 109 |
The presentation of a new Government to Parliament from ritual to personalisation | 111 |
Patterns of interaction in Austrian parliamentary debates | 135 |
Managing dissent and interpersonal relations in the Romanian parliamentary discourse | 193 |
Polish Parliament after 1989 | 223 |
Parliamentary interactions and the construction of the addressee | 265 |
Part IV Contrastive studies of parliamentary rhetoric and argumentation | 303 |
Adhominem arguments in the Dutch and the European Parliaments | 305 |
Rhetorical strategies in the British and Spanish parliaments | 329 |
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The Government control function of the French National Assembly in Questions au gouvernement | 165 |
Part III Procedural discursive and rhetorical particularities of postCommunist parliaments | 191 |
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