
European Parliaments under Scrutiny
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- European Parliaments under Scrutiny
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Introduction. European parliaments under scrutiny: Discourse strategies and Interaction practices
- Parliamentary discourse in focus
- Parliamentary practices in Europe: National parliaments and the European Parliament
- Brief overview of previous studies
- The genre of parliamentary discourse
- Parliamentary sub-genres
- Parliamentary questioning
- Parliamentary identities and roles
- The structure of the volume
- Part I: Parliamentary roles and identities
- Part II: Ritualised strategies of parliamentary confrontation
- Part III: Procedural, discursive and rhetorical particularities of post-Communist parliaments
- Part IV: Contrastive studies of parliamentary rhetoric and argumentation
- Afterword
- References
- Part I. Parliamentary roles and identities
- Political identities in parliamentary debates
- Introduction
- Social identity
- Discourse and identity
- Social identity and context models
- Political identities
- Parliamentary debates
- Conclusions
- Note
- References
- Identity co-construction in parliamentary discourse practices
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Parliaments and parliamentarism
- 3. Parliamentary discourse practices
- 4. Approaches to parliamentary discourse practices
- 5. Identity co-construction in parliamentary discourse
- 6. Parliamentary addressees and parliamentary audiences
- 7. Parliamentary participant roles
- 8. Patterns of MPs' identity co-construction and role shifts
- 9. Concluding remarks
- References
- The public and private sphere in parliamentary debate: The construction of the addresser in the Portuguese Parliament
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Portuguese parliamentary system
- 3. Theoretical framework
- 4. Corpus: the debate of the Interpellation to the Government
- 5. The construction of the addresser in discourse
- 5.1 Assuming the role of spokesperson
- 5.2 Assuming leadership
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Part II. Ritualised strategies of parliamentary confrontation
- The presentation of a new Government to Parliament from ritual to personalisation
- 1. Study design and aim
- 1.1 A sub-genre of parliamentary debate
- 1.2 Method
- 1.3 Structure of the paper
- 2. Institutional background
- 2.1 The Italian Parliament and the electoral system
- 2.2 The formation of a new government
- 2.3 1996 and 2001: A new form of legitimisation
- 3. Before the electors and before parliament
- 3.1 The "mission"
- 3.2 The programme
- 4. Berlusconi vs Prodi: Shared topoi
- 4.1 A common ambition: To be il Presidente di tutti
- 4.2 New vs old
- 5. Logos and ethos differently emphasised
- 5.1 Means and goals
- 5.2 Arguments and agreement
- 5.3 To sum up
- 6. Final remarks
- Notes
- References
- Patterns of interaction in Austrian parliamentary debates
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Setting the scene
- 2.1 The Austrian parliamentary system
- 2.2 Forms of speaker-floor interaction in the Austrian parliament
- 3. Design of the case study
- 3.1 The data-set
- 3.2 Some methodological remarks - On the nature of stenographic protocols
- 4. ICs and the issue of multiple adressees: Who interrupts whom for what purpose?
- 5. The interactional potential of ICs - From isolated comments to multi-party dialogic sequences
- 6. Dialogic syntax and the activation of resonance as a form of interpersonal engagement
- 6.1 Theoretical preliminaries
- 6.2 Strategic resonance activation in Austrian parliamentary debates
- 7. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- The Government control function of the French National Assembly in Questions au gouvernement
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical framework
- 3. The French National Assembly
- 4. Questions au gouvernement
- 5. Research hypothesis, objectives and methodology
- 6. Speech strategies in three sessions of Questions au gouvernement
- 6.1 Group ethos self-construction
- 6.2 Attacking procedures
- 7. Stances regarding values: Democratic and social rights versus Republican authority and freedom
- 8. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Part III. Procedural, discursive and rhetorical particularities of post-Communist parliaments
- Managing dissent and interpersonal relations in the Romanian parliamentary discourse
- Introduction
- Aims and methodology
- Corpus
- Brief historical survey of the Romanian Parliament
- Features and functions of the Romanian Parliament
- Parliamentary roles and identities in the Romanian Parliament
- Parliamentary discourse frames in the Romanian Parliament
- Maximising agreement in Romanian discourse
- Managing (dis)agreement in Romanian parliamentary discourse
- Parliamentary audience involvement
- Honorific forms of address in the Romanian Parliament
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Parliamentary discourse and political transition: Polish Parliament after 1989
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The corpus and method
- 3. The Polish parliament: Historical context
- 4. Transformation and the discourse of MPs
- 5. Changes in interactional control
- 6. Changes in the occurrences and functions of applause
- 7. The changing sources and functions of humour in the chamber
- 8. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Czech parliamentary discourse: Parliamentary interactions and the construction of the addressee
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aims, corpus and method
- 2.1 Brief overview
- 2.2 Material
- 2.3 Previous empirical studies
- 2.4 Method
- 2.5 The Prague school theory and analysis of the addressee in parliamentary discourse
- 3. Participants, text and context of Czech parliamentary sessions
- 3.1 The genre system of parliamentary sessions
- 3.2 Participants and their interrelations during the sessions
- 3.3 Parliamentary sessions as public communication
- 3.4 The Czech parliamentary system
- 3.5 Spatial relations in the Czech Parliament
- 4. The Czech Parliament from Communist to post-Communist discourse
- 4.1 Parliamentary discourse during the consolidation of the Communist regime
- 4.2 The post-1989 parliamentary sessions compared with the 1948-1953 sessions
- 5. The Czech debating style: Main characteristics
- 5.1 Linguistic features: Formal vs. informal and prepared vs. spontaneous communication
- 5.2 Political confrontation and interruptions
- 5.3 Some favourite arguments in Czech parliamentary debates
- 6. Construction of the addressee during parliamentary sessions
- 6.1 External means for constructing the addressee
- 6.2 Internal means for construction of the addressee
- 7. Concluding remarks
- 7.1
- 7.2
- 7.3
- 7.4
- References
- Part IV. Contrastive studies of parliamentary rhetoric and argumentation
- Ad-hominem arguments in the Dutch and the European Parliaments
- Rhetorical strategies in the British and Spanish parliaments
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
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