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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Introduction; Insulting as (un)parliamentary practice in the British and Swedish parliaments; Negotiating conflict; Consent and dissent in British and Italian parliamentary debates on the 1998 Gulf Crisis; Legitimising and informative discourse in the Kosovo debates in the British House of Commons and the Italian Chamber of Deputies; Threat and fear in parliamentary debates in Britain, Germany and Italy; Ways of talking about work in parliamentary discourse in Britain and Spain.