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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824851603321

Titolo

European parliaments under scrutiny : discourse strategies and interaction practices / / edited by Cornelia Ilie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010

ISBN

1-282-72166-6

9786612721663

90-272-8806-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Collana

Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, , 1569-9463 ; ; 38

Altri autori (Persone)

IlieCornelia

Disciplina

328.4001/4

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Political aspects

Parliamentary practice

Communication in politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Cornelia Ilie -- Parliamentary roles and identities. Political identities in parliamentary debates / Teun A. van Dijk -- Identity co-construction in parliamentary discourse practices / Cornelia Ilie -- The public and private sphere in parliamentary debate : the construction of the addresser in the Portuguese Parliament / Maria Aldina Marques -- Ritualised strategies of parliamentary confrontation. The presentation of a new government to Parliament from ritual to personalisation : a case study from Italy / Donella Antelmi and Francesca Santulli -- Patterns of interaction in Austrian parliamentary debates: on the pragmasemantics of unauthorized interruptive comments / Elisabeth Zima, Geert Brône and Kurt Feyaerts -- The government control function of the French National Assembly in Questions au gouvernement / Clara-Ubaldina Lorda Mur -- Procedural, discursive and rhetorical particularities of post-Communist parliaments. Managing dissent and interpersonal relations in the Romanian parliamentary discourse / Cornelia Ilie -- Parliamentary discourse and political transition: Polish parliament after 1989 / Cezar M. Ornatowski -- Czech parliamentary discourse: parliamentary interactions and the construction of the addressee / Yordanka



Madzharova Bruteig -- Contrastive studies of parliamentary rhetoric and argumentation. Ad-hominem arguments in the Dutch and the European Parliaments : strategic manoeuvring in an institutional context / H. José Plug -- Rhetorical strategies in the British and Spanish parliaments / Isabel Íñigo-Mora.

Sommario/riassunto

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.