Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorFenton-Smith, Ben
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:50:25Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:50:25Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2011-02-03T07:00:35Z
dc.identifier.issn1569-2159
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/jlp.7.1.05smi
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/35967
dc.description.abstractOne of the most high-profile and glamorous speech situations to occur in many parliamentary democracies around the world is the spectacle of Question Time. Whereas most of what goes on in parliament may be drab, perfunctory and arcane, Question Time is often dramatic, adversarial, and highly publicised. It is, generally, the only parliamentary procedure to be televised and stands out in the public mind as one of the primary tests of a politician's ability to 'perform'. But how might this performance be judged? Strangely, there has been little systematic linguistic research into the characteristic ways in which this political theatre is stage-managed by its actors. Using the Australian federal parliament as a case study, this paper attempts to elucidate some of the patterns that emerge from a close analysis of all opposition questions directed to government members over a week's sitting of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Utilising the tools of systemic functional grammar, recurring discourse structures are identified as standard techniques of formal interrogation between political parties.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom99
dc.relation.ispartofpageto120
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Language and Politics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDiscourse and pragmatics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4704
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470405
dc.titleDiscourse structure and political performance in adversarial parliamentary questioning
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFenton-Smith, Ben


Files in this item

FilesSizeFormatView

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Journal articles
    Contains articles published by Griffith authors in scholarly journals.

Show simple item record