Journal articles: 'Parliamentary discourse'

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Ragozina, Sofya. "Official Discourse on Islam and Islamic Discourse in Contemporary Russia." Context: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 6, no. 1 (April 5, 2021): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.55425/23036966.2019.6.1.47.

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This paper considers intertextuality between official discourse on Islam and Islamic discourse in contemporary Russia. This divide between discourses transmitted by government agencies and Russian Muslim leaders allows for an analysis of the differences and similarities between them. A major goal of this paper is to identify the origins of these modern discourses on Islam. To this end, it examines analytical parliamentary papers and transcripts of parliamentary meetings, but also expert materials from the Russian media and results of public opinion polls, in order to demonstrate how the idea of ‘fighting Islam’ flows across discourses to become a dominant discourse in the Russian political sphere. Analysis of Russian Muslim leaders’ rhetoric demonstrates close semantic connections with government discourse (not just on Islam), insofar as their rhetoric is full of conceptual metaphors indicating loyalty to the ruling elite.

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Соколов and Andrey Sokolov. "ANTI-CRISIS PROGRAMS IN THE DISCOURSE OF RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL PARTIES." Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences 10, no. 5 (October 20, 2015): 68–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/14296.

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In the article the display of political discourses of Russian parliamentary political parties in economic crisis of 2014 is examined. The translation of anti-crisis programs through the party crisis discourse is studied. On the basis of the comparative analysis of the data of official websites of four Russian parliamentary political parties, conclusions about similarities and differences in critical discourses of parties are drawn, especially public presentation of anti-crisis programs in 2008 - 2012. Special attention is paid to the fact that during the economic crisis new Russian parliamentary political parties formed certain anti-crisis suggestions and made an effort to translate these suggestions through its crisis discourse.

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Archakis, Argiris, and Villy Tsakona. "Parliamentary discourse in newspaper articles." Journal of Language and Politics 8, no. 3 (December 15, 2009): 359–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.8.3.02arc.

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The present paper aims, first, at analysing how and why parliamentary debates are transformed into newspaper articles with a narrative-like format; and, second, at proposing a model for integrating this kind of material and analysis into a literacy-based language teaching programme. Our data consists of Greek parliamentary proceedings and newspaper articles on parliamentary debates. Based on the critical discourse analysis framework and the social constructionist paradigm, we support the claim that the linguistic construction of social events in the press aims at creating and/or maintaining a bond between the newspapers and the readers sharing the same political and ideological standpoints. In this context, we suggest that getting familiar with the linguistic resources and discourse practices used in parliamentary and media discourse is crucial for developing a critical awareness of these genres. Finally, specific tasks are proposed aiming at reinforcing students’ critical awareness of newspaper articles on parliamentary debates.

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Bakhchivanzhi, A. V. "REGULATORY COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGY IN THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE." Opera in linguistica ukrainiana, no. 30 (October 23, 2023): 292–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2414-0627.2023.30.283889.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse in terms of the communicative behavior of its participants, in particular, the implementation of communicative strategies of its participants. The concepts of political discourse and parliamentary discourse as a manifestation of the latter are defined; genre features of Ukrainian parliamentary discourse are revealed and to characterize parliamentary debates as the main speech genre. The main communicative strategies of politicians - participants in the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse are outlined and the linguistic means of implementing communicative strategies are analyzed. The study is focused on the communicative behavior of the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada meetings, who performs the communicative role of the moderator and chooses regulatory as the main strategy of communicative behavior in the parliamentary discourse. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of the regulatory strategy in the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse. The object of the study is the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse, the subject of the study is the speech behavior of the “moderator” of the parliamentary debates in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The transcripts of the meetings of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for 2022-2023 served as the research material. The speech behavior of the speaker is considered - the chairman of the meetings is the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada or his deputy, who acts as a moderator at the parliamentary debates: announces the agenda, gives the floor, sums up what was said, etc. Participants in parliamentary debates take turns speaking in the discussion: in most cases, the topic of discussion is set by one politician who presents the draft law, and the deputies criticize or support his speech. The regulatory strategy is subordinated to the observance of procedural norms and rules during parliamentary debates, the information strategy provides for the notification of new and operational information to the participants of the parliamentary discourse. The study deepens the theoretical foundations of political linguistics, discourse studies and linguistic pragmatics; theories of speech genres and communicative strategies.

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Abrahamyan, Samvel. "Linguocultural Peculiarities of British Parliamentary Discourse." Armenian Folia Anglistika 12, no. 2 (16) (October 17, 2016): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2016.12.2.123.

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Peculiarities of British parliamentary discourse are largely conditioned by context models of its participants, which influence the style and linguistic forms of their speeches. As context models are culturally predetermined, linguistic means used in parliamentary discourse have also certain linguocultural peculiarities. Centuries-old traditions of British parliamentary system find their reflection in the language and form an essential part of British parliamentary discourse. The adherence to these communicative norms, including different rituals, ceremonies and traditions peculiar to British political life and British political discourse, has a special symbolic meaning and is aimed at maintaining stability of the political system, respect for the state power and its authority.

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Konstantinova, Anna, Svetlana Anufrienko, Madina Abazalieva, Arevik Gevorgyan, and Elena Soloveva. "Political discourse and the study of parliamentary communication: a comparative analysis." SHS Web of Conferences 69 (2019): 00007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196900007.

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The article is devoted to an analytical review of the main areas of theoretical and applied research of parliamentary communication, among which a special attention is given to the theory of political discourse and political linguistics. The prospects for a comparative study of public parliamentary communication are outlined as oneof the comparatively not studied components of political discourse. Today parliamentary discourse, being one of the components of political discourse, is the subject and object of several humanitarian disciplines. The main system-forming factor of parliamentary discourse is its institutionality, which determines both the form and the content of parliamentary communication. The development of parliamentary communication as a democratic form of exercising state power is influenced by historical, social and cultural progress of mankind as a whole, and the specifics of achieving this progress in separate countries. Despite the existence of a universal democratic framework that determines the status of parliament as a social institution in different countries, its activities have national and cultural specifics. Comparison and identification of universal and national-cultural-specific language features of the parliamentary discourse in different countries are the urgent tasks for political linguistics to fulfill.

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Kondratenko, Nataliia V., Anastisiia A. Kiselova, and Liubov V. Zavalska. "Strategies and Tactics of Communication in Parliamentary Discourse." Studies About Languages, no. 36 (July 1, 2020): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.0.36.23401.

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The study contains an outline of the results of linguo-pragmatic analysis of the speech behavior of politicians who are participants of parliamentary discourse. The concept of parliamentary discourse is defined as one of the varieties of political discourse within the framework of institutional communication. The genre heterogeneity of political discourse is substantiated and the genre of debates, including pre-election and parliamentary debates, is defined. It is revealed that parliamentary debates mostly represent the linguo-pragmatic specificities of parliamentary discourse. The materials for the analysis consisted of transcripts of meetings of the Parliament of Ukraine in 2004-2019. The main criterion of the typology was the peculiarities of the observed communicative interactions - co-operative and conflict ones. Regulatory, informational and consolidation communication strategies are identified within the framework of cooperative communication, within the framework of conflict interaction - declarative, confrontational and argumentative-critical ones.

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Chernousova, Yuliana A., and Luiza R. Sardalova. "Discourse markers in the European Parliamentary Discourse: gender aspect." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics 34, no. 2 (2019): 43–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2019-2-43-49.

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Georgalidou, Marianthi. "Addressing women in the Greek parliament." Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5, no. 1 (October 2, 2017): 30–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlac.5.1.02geo.

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Abstract In accordance with numerous studies highlighting aspects of political and parliamentary discourse that concern the rhetoric of political combat, verbal attacks and offensive language choices are shown to be rather common in the context of a highly adversarial parliamentary system such as the Greek. In the present study, however, the analysis of excerpts of parliamentary discourse addressed to women reveals not just aspects of the organization of rival political encounters but, as far as female MPs are concerned, aggressive and derogatory forms of speech that directly attack the gender of the addressees. Drawing on data from video-recordings, the official proceedings of parliamentary sittings, and the media (2012–2015), the present study investigates aggressive/sexist discourse within this context. The theoretical issues addressed concern the impoliteness end of the politeness/politic speech/impoliteness continuum in the light of extreme cases of conflict in political/parliamentary discourse.

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Shevchenko, Iryna, Donka Alexandrova, and Volodymyr Gutorov. "Impoliteness in parliamentary discourse: a cognitive-pragmatic and sociocultural approach." 22, no. 22 (August 2, 2021): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2021-22-05.

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This article focuses on the use of impoliteness strategies in the discourse of American, Bulgarian, Polish, and Ukrainian parliaments. Our research of impolite rhetoric, also known as unparliamentary language, is located on the intersection of cognitive pragmatics, cultural linguistics, and discourse analysis. We use an integrative framework, in which the pragmatics of impoliteness is underpinned by the cognitive model of the concept of impoliteness. We offer a description of impoliteness strategies in parliamentary discourse, single out the leading strategy of devaluation of the opponent, and define the stereotypical for each parliament verbal means of the strategy of devaluation and its tactics: criticism and belittlement of one’s merits and importance. Their verbal markers are lexicalized and syntactic units bearing the meaning of negative characterization, disrespect, mockery, sarcasm. We hypothesize that the variation of impoliteness strategies is different parliamentary discourses corresponds to linguistic, pragmatic, and sociocultural dissimilarities, and provide support for this through an empirical study. Linguistically, discursive means of devaluation in the American, Bulgarian, Polish, and Ukrainian parliaments are context free and context dependent, and their ratio varies. In all these parliamentary discourses, the lexicalized markers of impoliteness come from common mental source domains: negative evaluation, legal offence, democracy, deception, hostilities, their variation is due to corresponding construals of the world. Culturally, we claim that the form and content of impoliteness strategies is indirectly connected with a low-context culture in the USA as opposed to a high-context type of Slavic cultures. In the former, devaluation of opponents is mostly reached by lexicalized markers with inherent negative meaning; and in the latter, by syntactic context-dependent means. Pragmatically, the specific properties of impoliteness strategies in the four parliamentary discourses reveal their relation to the dominant politeness principles, which are negatively oriented in modern English and positively in Bulgarian, Polish, and Ukrainian.

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Treimane, Laura. "Analyzing parliamentary discourse: systemic functional perspective." Kalbotyra 63, no. 63 (January 1, 2011): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/klbt.2011.7653.

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Naujausi diskurso tyrimai rodo, kad parlamento diskursas laikytinas viena formaliausių ir savo normas turinčių politinio diskurso atmainų. Šis diskursas apibrėžiamas specifiniais konteksto bruožais, t. y. vieta, dalyviais ir tematika, o jo tyrimai neatskiriami nuo konteksto analizės. Konteksto analizė kalbotyroje sietina su sistemine funkcine gramatika, kurioje kalba suprantama kaip „socialinis semiotinis“ reiškinys, tirtinas konkrečiame socialiniame kontekste. Straipsnyje aprašomu tyrimu siekiama parodyti sisteminių funkcinių parametrų svarbą parlamento diskurso analizei. Empiriniai tyrimo duomenys rinkti iš transkribuotų Didžiosios Britanijos Bendruomenių rūmų ir Latvijos Seimo debatų. Analizė atskleidė tam tikrų leksikos vartojimo panašumų anglų ir latvių kalbose, pavyzdžiui, abiejų šalių parlamentarai vartoja sustabarėjusių mandagumo pasakymų ir veiksmažodinių junginių, laikytinų indeksinėmis struktūromis. Vis dėlto konteksto analizės metodas, taikytas laikantis sisteminės funkcinės tradicijų, iškėlė netikėtų konteksto kategorijų apibrėžties ir sampratos nenuoseklumų. Tyrimo išvadose teigiama, jog tolesnė sisteminės funkcinės teorijos sėkmė priklausys nuo to, ar tyrėjams pavyks tiksliau apibrėžti konteksto analizės parametrus.

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Ilie, Cornelia. "Discourse and metadiscourse in parliamentary debates." Journal of Language and Politics 2, no. 1 (December 31, 2002): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.2.1.05ili.

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Oral metadiscourse is envisaged in the present study as a set of rhetorically structured communicative and interactional strategies used by speakers to signal, highlight, mitigate, or cancel parts of their ongoing discourse and their varying relevance to different addressees and/or audience members. Parliamentary metadiscursive strategies are typical manifestations of MPs’ joint negotiations of the degree of directness, explicitness, appropriateness, etc., of the interlocutors’ discursive representations, interpretations and evaluations of events, processes, as well as people’s ideas and actions. One important consequence is that institutional adversariality co-occurs with interpersonal adversariality. Metadiscourse does not simply consist of distinct fragments of discourse and discursive patterns. Some of the rhetorically most effective strategies of parliamentary metadiscourse operate simultaneously on several levels of discourse. These strategies include various manifestations of the participants’ cognitive and inter-relational acts aimed at controlling, evaluating, adjusting and negotiating the goals and the effects of their and of their interlocutors’ ongoing talk. The metadiscursive level of parliamentary discourse helps to articulate particular aspects of speaker-interlocutor relations and/or speaker-audience relations. This involves particularly speaker role shifts, discursive scope widening/narrowing, multiple-audience targeting, re/definition of terms and concepts, minimising/maximising accountability and merit, challenging facts and statistics. Metadiscursive statements may convey simple, double or multiple messages

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van Dijk, Teun A. "Knowledge in parliamentary debates." Journal of Language and Politics 2, no. 1 (December 31, 2002): 93–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.2.1.06dij.

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Parliamentary debates, like all discourse, presuppose vase amounts of knowledge of their participants. MPs need to know about parliamentary procedures, about parties and other MPs, the political system, current social events, and of course the details of ongoing business and the current context of parliamentary interaction, among many other types of knowledge. Within the framework of a new, multidisciplinary epistemology, this paper first explores the many dimensions of knowledge, both in terms of mental representations as well as socially shared Common Ground. Then it examines how these kinds of discourse influence discourse production and comprehension, in general, and of parliamentary debates in particular. The chapter concludes with an “epistemic” analysis of the speech by Tony Blair held in the British House of Commons on the occasion of the September 11 attacks in the USA.

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Konstantinova, Anna, Svetlana Anufrienko, Asiyat Botasheva, Olga Totskaya, and Natalya Tkacheva. "Public parliamentary discourse in Russia and Germany: speech and genre specifics." SHS Web of Conferences 69 (2019): 00008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196900008.

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In the article the approaches to the problem of political discourse speech genres differentiation are discussed based on the comparative analysis of the German and Russian public parliamentary speech authentic samples. The special status of the public speech phenomenon in parliamentary communication and its conditionality by parliamentary regulations are discussed. The communicative roles of plenary sessions’ participants in Germany and Russia are described. In both parliaments, public parliamentary speech is exercised in a dialogue form, managed and controlled by the president of the Bundestag / presiding plenary session. The existence of common political goals of German and Russian public parliamentary communication proves the expediency of its comprehensive comparative study, taking into account extralinguistic and linguistic characteristics of public parliamentary speeches. The statements, representing the German and Russian public parliamentary speech, form a set of institutional genres, the emergence and functioning of which are predetermined by the parliamentary regulations. In both parliaments, they include a report, a statement, a question, and a reply, presented in several intragenre varieties, with specific national variants. Each of these genres is characterized by the use of specific methods of language expression, emotional utterances, rhetorical and polemical techniques.

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Steuer, Max. "A Subordinate Issue? An Analysis of Parliamentary Discourse on Freedom." Politologický časopis - Czech Journal of Political Science 22, no. 1 (2015): 55–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/pc2015-1-55.

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Jovanović, Vladimir Ž., and Milica Radulović. "IRRELEVANCE IN EU, UNITED KINGDOM AND SERBIAN PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE." Folia linguistica et litteraria X, no. 32 (2020): 217–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.32.2020.11.

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The focus of this research paper is the analysis of argumentative moves in parliamentary discourse that could be characterised as irrelevance criticisms. The term criticism is preferred to the more rigorous term fallacy as careful scrutiny is always advised before an argument is disqualified as missing the point. For the purpose of this research, an irrelevance criticism typology was devised to correspond to parliamentary discourse, an epistemic genre supposed to give knowledge and solutions to the debated political and legislative issues. The empirical part of the study is based on a cross-cultural corpus of almost 200 instances of irrelevance criticisms identified in six European Union, United Kingdom and Serbian parliamentary debates surrounding the questions addressed in the post-Brexit decade. The research corpus analysis involves the identification of core irrelevance types, their frequencies and implications within MP and MEP contributions in the parliamentary debates observed.

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Van Dijk, Teun A. "Political discourse and ideology." Doxa Comunicación. Revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales, no. 1 (December 2003): 207–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n1a12.

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This paper analyses the influence of ideologies on political discourse, in terms not only of content but also of form and interaction, defining ideology in the broadest sense of basic beliefs shared by members of a group and understanding political discourse to be a class of genres defined by a social domain, namely that of politics. The ways in which ideologically based beliefs are exhibited in discourse and discursive evidence in the interplay of several ideologies are analysed in the form of a debate on asylum seekers in the British House of Commons. Parliamentary debates are particularly revealing for these purposes because their text and content exhibit the social cognitions of political parties and their members. An analysis of this particular debate shows how political discourse in general, and parliamentary debates in particular, are replete with ideological expressions and rhetorical tropes at all levels.

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Chikileva, L. S., and A. G. Sergeeva. "Political discourse of parliamentary debates: pragmalinguistic aspect." Rossiiskii Gumanitarnyi Zhurnal 9, no. 1 (2020): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.15643/libartrus-2020.1.5.

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Bischof, Karin, and Cornelia Ilie. "Democracy and discriminatory strategies in parliamentary discourse." Democracy and Discriminatory Strategies in Parliamentary Discourse 17, no. 5 (October 29, 2018): 585–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.00017.edi.

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Estellés, Maria. "What genres tell us about evidentials and vice versa." Pragmatics and Society 9, no. 3 (June 28, 2018): 402–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.16034.est.

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Abstract The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to delve into the influence of contextual discursive factors in determining the type of evidential chosen and the pragmatic functions developed by evidentials in Spanish parliamentary discourse; second, it shows how evidentials can also provide useful new insight on the genre. A corpus study has been carried out studying the Spanish evidential discourse marker al parecer in parliamentary debates. The analysis shows how real examples of al parecer hardly fit any category of evidentials posited previously; data also illustrates how factors such as the discursive role or the part of the parliamentary process do affect the meaning of al parecer and change the pragmatic nuances conveyed by the discourse marker.

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Burroughs, Elaine. "The Discourse of Controlling “Illegal Immigration” in Irish Parliamentary Texts." Journal of Language and Politics 14, no. 4 (December 7, 2015): 479–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.4.01bur.

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“Illegal immigration” occurs at a quite small scale in the Irish context, especially when compared to other European countries. Nevertheless, there is a significant level of discussion about “illegal immigration” in the Irish Parliament. Through the conceptual frameworks of Foucauldian thought and Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper undertakes a Topoi Analysis to examine discursive representations from the Irish Parliament (2002–2009). It concentrates upon the most common argumentation forwarded by parliamentarians – the need to control “illegal immigration” in Ireland. This argumentation is expressed through various discourses. Notably, these discourses are juxtaposed with positive representations of the “undocumented Irish” in the U.S. Overall, it is argued that negative control discourses about “illegal immigrants” in Ireland provide a number of functions: (i) the legitimization and continuation of the nation-state rationale of governance, (ii) the provision of a forum for implicit expressions of racism, and (iii) the acceptance of “justified” practices of exclusion of unwanted non-EU migrants.

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Akuka, Benedict S., Christiana Hammond, and Albert A. Wornyo. "Politeness in Parliamentary Discourse: An Analysis of the Hansard of the Parliament of Ghana." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 5, no. 4 (September 26, 2021): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v5n4p1.

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This study investigates politeness in parliamentary discourse in Ghana. Using politeness theory as framework and the parliamentary Hansard as source of data, the study examines the politeness strategies employed by parliamentary actors, the implications of the frequency of the usage of the politeness strategies, and how the Standing Orders of Parliament determine the choice of a politeness strategy. Findings of the study show that political actors in the Parliament of Ghana use the bald on-record, the positive, the negative and the off-record politeness strategies in varied proportions. The study further reveals that the negative politeness strategy is the most frequently used politeness strategy with the Speaker being the highest user of the negative and the bald on-record politeness strategies. Again, the study found out that the off-record politeness strategy is the least used strategy. The Majority Members in Parliament use the highest frequency of the positive politeness strategies while the Minority Members of Parliament employ more negative politeness strategies. The study concludes that parliamentary discourse in Ghana employs more of the direct explicit polite expressions than the indirect implicit expressions of politeness. The study recommends that researchers should pay critical attention to the politeness phenomenon in parliamentary discourse.

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Criss, Marika K. "Language, immigration, and identity." Journal of Language and Politics 19, no. 2 (November 26, 2019): 270–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.19044.cri.

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Abstract Populism has been on the rise in Europe, especially in the last decade. Finland is no exception, and a populist party ‘The Finns Party’ has gained momentum since the 2011 parliamentary election. The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of the Finns Party in their official releases on immigration and language in the 2015 parliamentary election. The socio-politically situated examination draws from Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, especially the concepts of biopower, biopolitics, racism, governmentality and subject position. In addition, language identity, language ideologies, and populism are used to discuss how linguistic identity and ideology are perceived and constructed in the data, especially in terms of discourses of inclusion and exclusion of ethnically Finnish but linguistically non-dominant groups, and immigrants.

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Hoinărescu, Liliana. "Definition as an argumentative strategy in parliamentary discourse." Language and Dialogue 8, no. 2 (October 12, 2018): 209–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.00013.hoi.

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Abstract The present paper aims to investigate the main argumentative uses of definitions in various communicative contexts of the parliamentary discourse, on the basis of two sets of data, selected from the British and the Romanian Parliaments. Relevant categories of argumentative definitions are identified and described, by taking into consideration their linguistic structure and rhetorical features, as well as their current association with other types of arguments and pragmatic strategies. The cross-cultural and comparative perspective allows us to grasp to what extent the institutional forms, procedural rules and cultural models can actually influence the argumentative choices and reasoning patterns in the specific cases of the British and the Romanian Parliamentary discourse.

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Aminzade, Ronald, Rachel Schurman, and Francis Lyimo. "Circulating Discourses." Sociology of Development 4, no. 1 (2018): 70–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sod.2018.4.1.70.

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In recent years, neo-institutional sociologists, political scientists and geographers have engaged in a lively set of theoretical debates about how policy ideas move from one place to another. This paper seeks to engage with claims about global norm diffusion or policy transfer by studying policy discourses on agricultural development in the East African country of Tanzania. Using documents produced by international donors and research institutions, the Tanzanian government, and national and transnational civil society organizations; transcripts of parliamentary debates; and over 30 interviews with policy actors in Tanzania, we identify and compare three discourses that are currently circulating on African agricultural development policy: a global discourse, a dominant national discourse, and a subordinate national discourse. Based on an analysis of these discourses’ similarities and differences—and of the policy coalitions that are promoting them—we advance arguments about (a) the role of national contexts and historical legacies in shaping the diffusion of a global discourse; (b) power dynamics and political contention within the state itself; and (c) the transnational networks of both dominant and subordinate discourse coalitions.

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Dulesov, Evgeniy Pavlovich. "BIOMORPHIC METAPHOR IN RUSSIAN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE." Philology and Culture 55, no. 1 (2019): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2019-55-1-57-63.

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Pravikova, Lyudmila Vladimirovna. "PERSUASION AS A COGNITIVE STRATEGY IN PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE." Philological Sciences. Issues of Theory and Practice, no. 1-2 (January 2018): 359–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2018-1-2.39.

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Kisiel, Yurii. "THE ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE." Visnyk of the Lviv University, no. 35 (2021): 184–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/pps.2021.35.22.

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Jarvis, Lee, and Tim Legrand. "Legislating for Otherness: Proscription powers and parliamentary discourse." Review of International Studies 42, no. 3 (December 15, 2015): 558–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210515000509.

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AbstractThis article offers a discursive analysis of UK Parliamentary debate on the proscription of terrorist organisations between 2002 and 2014. It argues that these debates play an important constitutive role in the (re)production of national Self and terrorist Other that remains largely overlooked in existing work on this counter-terrorism mechanism. The article begins with an overview of this literature, arguing it is overwhelmingly oriented around questions of efficacy and ethics. While important, this focus has concentrated academic attention on the causal question of what proscriptiondoes, rather than the constitutive question of what ismade possibleby proscription. The article’s second section situates our analysis within discursive work in International Relations, upon which we investigate three pervasive themes in Parliamentary debate: (i) Constructions of terrorism and its threat; (ii) Constructions of specific groups being proscribed; and, (iii) Constructions of the UK Self. We argue that these debates (re)produce an antagonistic relationship between a liberal, open, and responsible UK mindful of cultural and religious difference, on the one hand. And, on the other, its illiberal, irrational terrorist Others conducting immoral violences on behalf of particularistic identity claims. This analysis, we conclude, has significance for contemporary debate on security politics, as well as for studies of counter-terrorism and international politics more generally.

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Van Der Valk, Ineke. "Right-wing parliamentary discourse on immigration in France." Discourse & Society 14, no. 3 (May 1, 2003): 309–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926503014003084.

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Zernetsky, Pavlo, and Ganna Riabokon. "Organizational structure of British parliamentary discourse: pragmalinguistic aspect." NaUKMA Research Papers. Linguistics 2 (September 30, 2019): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18523/2616-8502.2019.2.20-29.

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Carapic, A. "Book review: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse." Discourse Studies 9, no. 1 (February 1, 2007): 117–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146144560700900110.

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Al-Hadrawi, Fatima, and Musaab Al-Khazaali. "Pragma-Rhetorical Strategies in British Parliamentary Argumentative Discourse." Kufa Journal of Arts 1, no. 56 (June 1, 2023): 574–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.36317/kaj/2023/v1.i56.12096.

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This study aims at investigating the pragma-rhetorical structure of argumentative discourse in British Parliament. To achieve this aim, Van Eemeren and Houtlosser’s (2002) model of strategic maneuvering is utilized. Among the important conclusions the study comes up with are: Both figures, i.e. the Prime Minister and Jeremy Corbyn in British parliament utilize certain pragma-rhetorical strategies either to defend or support their standpoints. Besides, Overstatement extends over the other figures of speech and argumentative appeals in British parliamentary discourse and makes the debates highly rhetorical as a result. Finally, Pathos prevailed other argumentative appeals. This proves that arguers in British parliament resort to feelings and stimulation of the audience’s emotions in making their arguments

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Berracheche, Anissa. "Appraisal and Party Positioning in Parliamentary Debates: A Usage-Based Critical Discourse Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 6 (October 8, 2020): 322. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n6p322.

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This article presents a corpus-driven study of evaluative discourses surrounding asylum seekers in parliamentary debates. It explores how Australian political parties have expressed unfavorable attitudes toward asylum seekers. These attitudes are operationalized by implementing Martin and White’s appraisal framework, which comprises affectual (affect), ethical (judgment), and aesthetic (appreciation) values. The findings reveal that the subcategories of affect, judgment, and appreciation are strategically deployed by both right- and left-wing parties. The right-wing discourse, conveying ethical values, emphasizes the difference between “in” and “out” groups, whereas the left-wing discourse, engaged in affectual values, demonstrates their humanitarian side. The study has also a methodological focus, namely, testing the feasibility of the behavioral profile approach in critical discourse analysis to obtain more replicable and reliable quantitative results. The method consists of the manual annotation of the corpus and multivariate statistical analysis.

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Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo. "It's about people: identifying the focus of parliamentary debates through a corpus-driven approach." Corpora 13, no. 3 (November 2018): 393–430. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2018.0155.

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The aim of this paper is two-fold: (1) to demonstrate the usefulness of corpus-driven methods in determining a research focus, and (2) to show that ‘people’-focussing is a key feature of UK and Ghanaian parliamentary debates. Identifying one's research focus in discourse analysis after collecting a large amount of data can be challenging. It is relatively easier to pinpoint the items and focus of the research when the researcher employs a corpus-based method, since he or she normally has a theory to validate, refute or refine. However, when the researcher has assembled his or her data without having in advance specific theories, features, themes and concepts relating to the discourse that he or she intends to study, it becomes difficult to identify the essential issues on which to concentrate and explore. Perhaps this is even more challenging when dealing with parliamentary debates data given the wide-ranging subjects and alternative courses of action deliberated by parliamentarians. In such a situation, a corpus-driven method can be highly useful. As part of a major study of parliamentary discourse, this paper demonstrates how a corpus-driven method can help in determining one's research focus in the study of parliamentary debates.

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Sidorenko, Nadezhda, and Nadezhda Nizhnik. "Parliamentary discourse on the pages of regional periodicals as a determinant of the formation of public consciousness in Russia at the beginning of the 20-th century." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2021, no. 2 (July 8, 2021): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2021-2-57-69.

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The relevance of the study of problems relating to the organization and activities of representative bodies in democratic States is not diminished. The media play an important role in increasing public confidence in Parliament and in parliamentarians, and their activities are a determining factor in shaping the image of the legislature in the public consciousness. In the context of the forthcoming elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in 2021, the experience of the media in covering the work of the Russian Parliament, including the experience gained during the years of activity of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, is of particular interest. The subject of the study is the parliamentary discourse on the pages of the periodical press of the Urals, which is a determinant of the formation of public consciousness during the years of the convening and activity of the State Duma of the Russian Empire. The methodology of the study is determined taking into account the concept of T. A. van Dyke on the processing of language in the context of social factors. Understanding the discourse as a text interpreted by the author in accordance with his political position in a specific communicative situation, the authors made an attempt to analyse the texts placed on the pages of the periodicals of the largest region of Russia - the Urals, concerning the convening of the State Duma of the Russian Empire and the practice of the Russian parliament in 1906-1917. Parliamentary discourse is a manifestation of political communication and communication between political actors, including the population of the Russian Empire, who received electoral rights in 1905. The cognitive model for analyzing parliamentary discourse takes into account the identity of the transmitting entity (addressee), the message itself, the receiving entity (addressee). An analysis of parliamentary discourse provides an opportunity to identify a mechanism for influencing the public’s perception of the rule of law, the appointment and the effectiveness of parliamentary action.

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Cuenca, Maria Josep. "Connectors gramaticals i connectors lèxics en la construcció discursiva del debat parlamentari." Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 30 (July 1, 2017): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.46586/zfk.2017.99-121.

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Summary: Text analysis shows that in addition to grammatical or grammaticalized connectives and discourse markers (like conjunctions and parentheticals such as however, in brief or for instance), there are non-fixed structures such as to summarize what we have seen so far or to take an example that contribute to discourse organization. These are often replaceable by a grammatical connective or discourse marker, but, unlike them, are not completely fixed, have a compositional meaning (and are therefore transparent) and are prototypically metalinguistic. In this article, based on a corpus of parliamentary debate in Catalan, I have identified and classified lexical and grammatical connectives and also endophoric markers that act as cohesive mechanisms at textual level. This allows us to compare the discourse function of these linking mechanisms. The analysis shows that by using complex and transparent expressions semantically equivalent to grammatical connectives the speaker anchors her speech and explicitly expresses way the different argumentative movements in discourse. Keywords: Connective, lexical connectives, discourse markers, discourse organizers, metadiscourse, parliamentary debate, Catalan

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Hedman, Christina, and Jenny Rosén. "Modersmålsämnets legitimitet i ett förändrat politiskt landskap - En analys av svensk riksdagsdebatt under 2010-talet." Utbildning & Demokrati – tidskrift för didaktik och utbildningspolitk 29, no. 3 (August 17, 2021): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.48059/uod.v29i3.1542.

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The legitimacy of the mother tongue subject in a changing political landscape: An analysis of Swedish parliamentary debate in the twenty-tens. This paper highlights and discusses the arguments in favor of, or against Mother Tongue Instruction (MTI) in Swedish parliamentary debate between 2010 and 2020. New to this decade is the entrance of yet another nationalist and populist party with the abolishment of MTI on its political agenda. Building on a critical discourse analytical frame and argumentation analysis, we discuss this party’s rhetoric on MTI – based in an Othering discourse and the construction of MTI as a path to alienation – and the parliamentary counter-voices. The latter mainly concern the role of MTI for development of Swedish and learning in other school subjects, implying that MTI in its own right is subordinated. We argue that this counter-discourse represents a shift in how MTI is legitimized – and in fact plays into assimilationists’ hands – compared to the pluralistic ideology that initially made way for MTI. The importance of scrutinizing political rhetoric is stressed to anticipate political action.

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Thi, Minh Nguyet Nguyen. "Verbal Disagreement Strategies in Political Discourse (on the Material of Vietnamese Parliamentary Discourse)." Вестник Московского государственного лингвистического университета. Гуманитарные науки, no. 6 (2022): 99–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.52070/2542-2197_2022_6_861_99.

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Aydın-Düzgit, Senem. "European parliament ‘doing’ Europe." Discourse analysis, policy analysis, and the borders of EU identity 14, no. 1 (May 26, 2015): 154–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.1.08ayd.

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This article focuses on the discourses of the main centre-right political party group (EPP-ED, EPP) in the European Parliament on Turkey’s accession to the European Union. It utilises the analytical framework of the Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis to mainly concentrate on the articulations of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural identity’ in the discussions over Turkish accession in official parliamentary debates and in-depth personal interviews with the members of this group. It is argued that a relational theorising of identity allows for analysis of the ways in which a cultural ‘Europe’ is articulated through current discussions on Turkey in the mainstream right-wing European Parliament discourse and thus reveals the cultural borders that are enacted with reference to Turkish membership within this group.

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Zainal Abidin, Najah, and Jariah Mohd Jan. "A Pragmatic Analysis of Responses in Malaysian Parliamentary Discourse." Journal of Pragmatics Research 4, no. 2 (March 18, 2022): 92–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/jopr.v4i2.92-106.

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This study employs the framework of responses proposed by Harris (1991), the notion of implicature as defined by Thomas (1995), and the dimensions of resistance introduced by Clayman (2001) to examine the types of responses in Malaysian Parliamentary Question Time. Analysis revealed the tendency of using direct, indirect, and evasive responses to specific questions for various reasons. Direct answers were observed in questions that could reflect positively on the government’s image. On the contrary, indirect answers were employed in questions that suggest clashing of goals between responders and questioners that could subsequently threaten the image of the government whereas negative presuppositions and the way questions are structured in parliament influence the production of evasion.Keywords: direct answer, evasive response, indirect answer, parliamentary discourse, political discourse

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Natukunda-Togboa, Edith R. "From Discussion to Fist-fighting: Was Strategic Maneuvering Derailed during the Debate on the Presidential Age Limit Bill in Uganda?" English Linguistics Research 8, no. 2 (April 23, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v8n2p1.

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Of recent, due its impact on political events and socio-political processes like general elections and peace building, parliamentary discourse has become the object of research in Africa. In Uganda, in particular, at different times in the country’s history, it has been at the heart of fomenting conflict, but also key in fostering peace. It is of historic importance that we analyse how the controlled institutionalized parliamentary discourse during the presidential age limit debates degenerated to fist fighting and chair hurling in the Uganda Parliament. Using the pragma-dialectical, the rhetorical and linguistic approaches this study seeks to check the arguer’s commitment to pursuing a reasonable argumentation as s/he tries to discursively resolve the difference of opinion which is usually at the heart of parliamentary debates. Through a review of the atmosphere surrounding the presidential age limit debate and the two critical sessions of the relevant parliamentary discussions, the author tries to establish whether this discursive resolving of differences of opinion was achieved or whether there are factors that contributed to derailing the discursive strategic maneuvering.

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Mohammed, Dima. "Pursuing multiple goals in European Parliamentary Debates." Argumentation in political deliberation 2, no. 1 (May 13, 2013): 47–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.2.1.03moh.

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In this paper I shed light on the multi-purposive nature of debates in the European Parliament. As a case in point, I examine a debate on immigration in the wake of a migratory crisis in the Italian island of Lampedusa in early 2011. I analyze the points of view argued for by MEPs, aiming at identifying the different institutional goals that are typically pursued and characterizing the ways in which these goals shape the argumentative exchanges. The link between the multiple goals communicators have and the discourse choices they make can be assumed on the basis of previous research (see Craig 1990; Jacobs et al. 1991; Tracy 1984; Tracy and Coupland 1990). In line with the pragma-dialectical view of argumentative discourse taking place in the context of more or less institutionalized argumentative activity types (van Eemeren 2010), institutional goals are understood as those goals that can be attributed to arguers on the basis of the type of activity in which they are engaged. In identifying the institutional goals, I follow Craig (1986, 1990) and consider not only goals which are intentional, formal, and directly responsible for a certain discourse choice, but also goals which are functional, strategic, and only indirectly responsible for discourse choices. The analysis shows that the MEPs pursued three kinds of goals: goals that are 1) assigned to them by the occasion of the debate; 2) related to the powers of Parliament; and 3) associated with the different identities they assume in Parliament. While the pursuit of the occasion-related and powers-related goals gave rise to multiple simultaneous discussions, the pursuit of the identity-related goals guided the MEPs’ choices and formulations in these discussions.

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Gromyko, S. A. "Persuasive Complex as a Unit of Analysis of Parliamentary Discourse." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 4 (April 21, 2021): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-4-66-79.

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The method of analysis of speech impact in the parliamentary discourse is considered. The relevance and novelty of the research is seen in the fact that parliamentary discourse is viewed as a persuasive discourse. A methodology for analyzing the persuasiveness of this discourse is pro-posed. The category “persuasive complex” is introduced into scientific circulation, which is considered as a set of tools and methods for realizing persuasiveness, formed in a single discourse and united by a semantic unit — an image or a symbol. Using the material of the discussion of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire, the author dwells in detail on the analysis of the persuasive complex “BLOOD”. The procedure for analyzing this persuasive complex is described. The author comes to the conclusion that the persuasive complex is implemented at three levels: semantic, instrumental and operational. It is shown that representatives of all factions in the first Russian parliament actively used the “BLOOD” persuasive complex, but the options for its implementation in specific persons differed significantly. It is concluded that the persuasive complex is a unit of discourse analysis, which is aimed at identifying the semantic, formal and functional components of the addressee's impact on the recipient.

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Berrocal, Martina. "‘Victim playing’ as a form of verbal aggression in the Czech parliament." Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5, no. 1 (October 2, 2017): 81–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlac.5.1.04ber.

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Abstract As the core of political discourse is the struggle for power and scarce resources, conflict seems to be an essential component of political action and interaction. In addition, conflicts in parliament are manifested in many different ways. They range from disputes during the plenary sessions to more personal attacks in the question time. This paper, however, examines an atypical display of parliamentary discourse, namely a speech by a social democratic MP David Rath, which regarded a vote on his extradition and was delivered on 5 June 2012. This speech obviously did not fulfil the primary function of the parliamentary sessions, i.e. legislating and decision-making. Here the MP was given the opportunity to present his own version of events and ask fellow MPs to maintain his parliamentary immunity. The analysis revealed two intertwining discourse strategies. On the one hand, the MP who is charged with several criminal acts presents himself as a victim of a conspiracy. In that, he aims to divert attention from the criminal case while calling for sympathy and providing self-justification. On the other hand, he uses his time to verbally complain about his arrest, the conditions in which he is held in custody, and the people he holds responsible for his current situation; he uses verbal attacks to undermine and disqualify a number of overt and covert enemies. The key aim of the analysis is to explore how victimhood is constructed in discourse, what discourse strategies are observable at the macro-level and how they are reflected in the discourse structure and in the linguistic style.

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Konrath, Christoph. "On the Juridification of Parliamentary Practice and Procedures." International Journal of Parliamentary Studies 1, no. 1 (April 26, 2021): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10014.

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Abstract The maintenance and reform of parliamentary law increasingly focus on legal norms and the language of the courts. They are shaped by constitutional discourse and court rulings. As in other parts of public and administrative law we encounter an ever more technical and detailed approach in parliamentary law. In this way, we may counter tendencies to weaken democracy and the rule of law, integrate parliamentary procedures into administrative law and organisation and thus neutralize or disguise the political dimension of parliamentarism; or, on the other hand, alienate parliamentary procedures and proceedings from the public and from politicians who are no longer able to understand and communicate about them.

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Mohamad Khalil, Shafiyah, and Mohammad Shazie Zaini Mohd Shahril Firda. "Inter-Sentential and Intra-Sentential Code Switching in Parliamentary Debate." International Journal of Modern Languages And Applied Linguistics 2, no. 4 (December 3, 2018): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v2i4.7691.

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Malaysians generally use two languages which are Malay and English in professional discourse. Bahasa Melayu or the Malay language is the national language of Malaysia and is used in formal discourse in government administration, while English is the nation’s second language that is used in professional discourse in private organizations in Malaysia. Although the use of English in government administration has been a hotly debated topic, but in reality both languages are used interchangeably since many Malaysian professionals are bilinguals of Malay and English. This paper has looked into two types of code-switching and how it is used in a Malaysian parliamentary debate. The findings revealed that inter-sentential and intra-sentential code-switching were used during the parliamentary debate due to social factors as well as linguistic elements.

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Neiman, Valentina Nikolaevna, and Margarita Stepanovna Vykhrystyuk. "PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE IN THE MODERN CZECH LINGUO-CULTURAL SPACE." Philological Sciences. Issues of Theory and Practice, no. 6 (June 2019): 373–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2019.6.79.

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Harmer, Nichola. "Spaces of concern: Parliamentary discourse on Britain's overseas territories." Geographical Journal 184, no. 4 (August 26, 2018): 384–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12273.

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Fenton-Smith, Ben. "Discourse structure and political performance in adversarial parliamentary questioning." Journal of Language and Politics 7, no. 1 (May 26, 2008): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.7.1.05smi.

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One of the most high-profile and glamorous speech situations to occur in many parliamentary democracies around the world is the spectacle of Question Time. Whereas most of what goes on in parliament may be drab, perfunctory and arcane, Question Time is often dramatic, adversarial, and highly publicised. It is, generally, the only parliamentary procedure to be televised and stands out in the public mind as one of the primary tests of a politicians ability to perform. But how might this performance be judged? Strangely, there has been little systematic linguistic research into the characteristic ways in which this political theatre is stage-managed by its actors. Using the Australian federal parliament as a case study, this paper attempts to elucidate some of the patterns that emerge from a close analysis of all opposition questions directed to government members over a weeks sitting of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Utilising the tools of systemic functional grammar, recurring discourse structures are identified as standard techniques of formal interrogation between political parties.

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