The role of adversarial discourse in political opposition

Autor:	Peter Bull
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory Politeness House of Commons media_common.quotation_subject Opposition (politics) Language and Linguistics Adversarial system Politics Phone Law Accountability Sociology media_common Hacker
Zdroj:	Language and Dialogue. 3:254-272
ISSN:	2210-4127 2210-4119
DOI:	10.1075/ld.3.2.06bul
Popis:	The focus of this study is on the role played by adversarial questioning in political opposition. As an illustrative example, a detailed analysis is presented of two sessions of Prime Minister’s Questions in the UK House of Commons (6 and13 July, 2011), in which the Leader of the Opposition (Ed Miliband) challenged the Prime Minister (David Cameron) regarding his handling of the British phone-hacking scandal. The study is conceptualized in terms of theories of politeness (Brown and Levinson 1978, 1987) and impoliteness (Culpeper 1996), also in terms of the concept of follow-ups (Sinclair and Coulthard 1975). It is argued that this analysis has implications for all three linguistic conceptualizations, furthermore that PMQs, despite its many detractors and deficiencies, can play an important role in sustaining political dialogue and political accountability through adversarial questioning.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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