Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814256503321
• Autore: Bayley Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 20040301; John Benjamins Publishing Company
• ISBN: 1-282-25447-2; 90-272-9581-6; 9786612254475; 1-4237-6638-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Collana: Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture Cross-cultural perspectives on parliamentary discourse
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetti: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Linguistics / Semantics; Discourse analysis - Political aspects; Parliamentary practice; Communication in politics; Languages & Literatures; Philology & Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Premise -- 2. Language and institutions -- 3. Why study parliamentary language? -- 4. Characteristics of parliamentary language -- 5. Methodologies -- 5.1. Critical discourse analysis -- 5.2. Systemic functional linguistics -- 5.3. Corpus linguistics -- 6. A brief overview of this volume -- Notes -- References -- Insulting as (un)parliamentary practice in the British and Swedish parliaments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aims and method -- 3. Corpus -- 4. Unparliamentary language revisited -- 4.1. Unparliamentary language in a cognitive theory perspective -- 4.2. Unparliamentary language in a politeness theory perspective -- 4.3. Unparliamentary language in a ; rhetorical theory perspective -- 5. English and Swedish parliamentary insults -- 5.1. (Un)parliamentary polarisation: Political vs. rhetorical polarisation -- 5.2. (Un)parliamentary mitigation strategies -- 5.3. (Un)parliamentary dissociation between in-group identity and inter-group dissent -- 6. Responses to insults by English MPs and Swedish MPs -- 6.1. Addressee-responses vs. other-responses to insults -- 6.2. Ironising vs. moralising responses -- 6.3. Responses to insults focused on ideological notions like ``democracy'' vs. responses to insults focused on mental capacities like ``intelligence'' -- 7. Rhetorical functions of (un)parliamentary language -- 8. Concluding remarks -- Note -- References -- Negotiating conflict -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical preliminaries -- 3. Methodology: The data -- 4. Negotiating conflicts: The system of mood and speech functions -- 5. The reference system: Terms of address in parliamentary debates -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References.; Consent and dissent in British and Italian parliamentary debates on the 1998 Gulf Crisis -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Aims and approach -- 1.2. Description of the corpus -- 1.3. Contextualising the December 1998 strike against Iraq -- 2. Constructing consent and monitoring dissent on the ``use of force'' in the House of Commons -- 2.1. Emotional responses to the use of force -- 2.2. Moral evaluations: Ethics and veracity -- 3. The Italian parliamentary debates compared and contrasted with the British debates -- 4. Conclusion: Comparing contexts and strategies - or, ``your word is who you are'' -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Legitimising and informative discourse in the Kosovo debates in the British House of Commons and the Italian Chamber of Deputies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The geopolitical context -- 3. Legitimising and informative discourses -- 4. Syntactic choices -- 4.1. Impersonal constructions -- 4.2. Quotations and other sources of authority -- 5. Lexical resources -- 5.1. Indirectness versus explicitness -- 5.2. Vagueness and generalisation -- 5.3. ``Smart weapons and surgical strikes'' -- 5.4. Keywords and lexical choices -- 6. Conclusions: ``a debate is appreciated because of its frankness'' -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- House of Commons Official Report, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) -- Camera dei Deputati Resoconti officiali -- Threat and fear in parliamentary debates in Britain, Germany and Italy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The frequency of fear and threat -- 3. The semantics of fear and threat -- 3.1. Meanings of threat -- 3.2. The meanings of fear -- 4. Threats in the parliamentary corpora -- 4.1. Threat in the House of Commons -- 4.2. Threats in the Camera dei Deputati and the Senato -- 4.3. Threats in the Bundestag -- 5. Threats in the press -- 6. Fear in the parliamentary corpora -- 6.1. Fear in the House of Commons.; 6.2. Fear in the Camera dei Deputati and the Senato della Repubblica -- 6.3. Fear in the Bundestag -- 7. Fear in the press corpora -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Reference corpora consulted -- Appendix -- Great Britain -- Italy -- Germany -- Ways of talking about work in parliamentary discourse in Britain and Spain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Work in the House of Commons -- 2.1. Work -- 2.2. Working -- 2.3. Worker -- 3. Job in the House of Commons -- 4. Labour in the House of Commons -- 5. (Un)employment in the House of Commons -- 6. Trabajo in the Congreso -- 7. Empleo in the Congreso -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- `Truth, justice and the American way' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. More preliminaries -- 2.1. Truth, justice, and the case at hand -- 2.2. On context(s) -- 3. appraisal systems -- 3.1. The major attitude system: affect, judgement, appreciation -- 3.2. The two attendant systems: engagement and graduation -- 4. Judging truth-telling in the House debate on the ; impeachment of the President, 1998 -- 4.1. Judgement, or, feelings institutionalised as `proposals': Ethics/morality (rules and regulations) -- 4.2. Appraisal `tokens' -- 5. Truth, Justice, and competing discourses -- Notes -- References -- Parliamentary discourse when things go wrong -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Parliamentary discourse: Contradictions and struggle -- 3. Time, history, context -- 4. Contexts as analyses -- 5. The visual display of data-configurations -- 6. Where do things go when they `go wrong'? -- References -- Text and context of parliamentary debates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Earlier studies on context -- 2.1. Systemic Functional Linguistics -- 2.2. Other approaches -- 3. Fragments of a theory of context -- 3.1. Contexts as mental models -- 3.2. Parliamentary contexts -- 3.3. Parliamentary Context Categories -- 3.4. Example -- Acknowledgements.; References -- Author index -- Subject index -- The series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE.
• Sommario/riassunto: The activity of parliaments is largely linguistic activity: they produce talk and they produce texts. Broadly speaking, the objectives that this discourse aims to satisfy are similar all over the world: to legitimate or contest legislation, to represent diverse interests, to scrutinise the activity of government, to influence opinion and to recruit and promote political actors. But the discourse of different national parliaments is subject to variation, at all linguistic levels, on the basis of history, cultural specificity, and political culture in particular. Through the use of various analytical tools of functional linguistics, this volume seeks to provide explanatory analyses of parliamentary discourse in different countries - Britain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United States - and to explore its peculiarities. Each chapter outlines a particular methodological framework and its application to instances of parliamentary discourse on important issues such as war, European integration, impeachment and immigration.