Adversarial Discourse in Prime Minister’s Questions
| Autor: | Pam Wells, Peter Bull |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Parliament media_common.quotation_subject Opposition (politics) Adversary Language and Linguistics Education Prime minister Politeness theory Adversarial system Anthropology Law Converse Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 31:30-48 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6526 0261-927X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0261927x11425034 |
| Popis: | In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) are a weekly 30-minute parliamentary session, in which the prime minister (PM) responds to questions from both government and opposition members of parliament (MPs). In this study, 18 PMQs (April-November, 2007) were analysed, 9 with Labour PM Tony Blair, 9 with his successor Gordon Brown; in all 18 sessions, their opponent was Conservative Party leader David Cameron. In PMQs, MPs are expected to converse through questions and replies, while refraining from “unparliamentary language” (e.g., direct insults to another MP). However, within these constraints, PMQs are notorious for adversarial discourse, analysed in this study through the concept of face-threatening acts (FTAs). Six distinctive ways in which FTAs are performed by the leader of the opposition in questions and five distinctive ways in which the PM may counter FTAs in replies were identified. Overall, it is proposed that face aggravation in PMQs is not just an acceptable form of parliamentary discourse, it is both sanctioned and rewarded, a means whereby MPs may enhance their own status through aggressive facework. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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