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Cross-cultural perspectives on parliamentary discourse /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 analy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 384 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1423766385 9781423766384 9027295816 9789027295811 9027227004 9789027227003 9781588114778 1588114775 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9463 ; |