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benjamins.com>Title: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 10 Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC_10 Editor: Paul Bayley, University of Bologna Hardback: ISBN: 1588114775, Pages: vi, 385 pp., Price: USD 126.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027227004, Pages: vi, 385 pp., Price: EUR 105.00 Abstract: 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 analytical tools of functional linguistics, this volume seeks to provide explanatory analyses of parliamentary discourse in different countries -- Britain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United States -- and to explore its peculiarities. Each chapter outlines a particular methodological framework and its application to instances of parliamentary discourse on important issues such as war, European integration, impeachment and immigration. Table of contents Introduction: The whys and wherefores of analysing parliamentary discourse Paul Bayley 1--44 Insulting as (un)parliamentary practice in the British and Swedish parliaments: A rhetorical approach Cornelia Ilie 45--86 Negotiating conflict: Interruptions in British and Italian parliamentary debates Cinzia Bevitori 87--109 Consent and dissent in British and Italian parliamentary debates on the 1998 Gulf Crisis Nicoletta Vasta 111--149 Legitimising and informative discourse in the Kosovo debates in the British House of Commons and the Italian Chamber of Deputies Denise Dibattista 151--184 Threat and fear in parliamentary debates in Britain, Germany and Italy Paul Bayley, Cinzia Bevitori and Elisabetta Zoni 185--236 Ways of talking about work in parliamentary discourse in Britain and Spain Paul Bayley and F�lix San Vicente 237--269 'Truth, Justice and the American way': The APPRAISAL SYSTEM of JUDGEMENT in the U.S. House debate on the impeachment of the President, 1998 Donna R. Miller 271--300 Parliamentary discourse when things go wrong: Mapping histories, contexts, conflicts Teresa Carb� 301--337 Text and Context of parliamentary debates Teun A. van Dijk 339--372 Lingfield(s): Discourse Analysis Pragmatics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=9351.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue