Parliamentary sessions: interlocking genres of law-making

R_zvan S_ftoiu

Chapter 17 in Handbook of Political Discourse, 2023, pp 266-287 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter scrutinizes political communication in the Parliament as a form of ‘public dialogue’ through which both professional and non-professional politicians work together to achieve power in a dialogic interaction. It characterizes the Parliament as an arena where specific actors, members of the Parliament, use language to enact multi-layered identities through inter-generic speech acts and speech events. It defines the contextual factors that limit the topical options of speakers, constrained by the requirements of an institution in regard to possible self-selection and length of turns. It also discusses the Parliament as a type of confrontational environment where speakers use their communicative competences to discredit other political counterparts. Finally, the chapter reviews the inter-generic nature of discourses in four types of Romanian parliamentary proceedings: opening sessions, festive sessions, impeachment sessions, and motion of no confidence sessions.

Keywords: Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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