scholarly journals Narratives of dialogue in parliamentary discourse

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Truan
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Hypothetical Situation ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Ordinary Citizen ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Member Of Parliament

Abstract This paper puts forward an argument about the relation between narratives and constructed dialogue in political discourse. Narratives of dialogue are special cases of constructed dialogue that emphasize the embeddedness of the speaker, displayed as a discourse participant engaging in a conversation with an ordinary citizen or a public figure. Close analysis of British, German, and French parliamentary debates reveals how narratives of dialogue shape an image of the speaker involved in a dialogue. While being engaged in the activity of debating, parliamentarians simultaneously perform the act of debating. I argue that the main point of narratives of dialogue is not so much to report on a prior or hypothetical situation, but to create the ethos of a Member of Parliament receptive to their interlocutors.

scholarly journals Political discourse and ideology

2003 ◽  
pp. 207-225
Author(s):  
Teun A Van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Cognitions ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Social Domain ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Basic Beliefs

This paper analyses the influence of ideologies on political discourse, in terms not only of content but also of form and interaction, defining ideology in the broadest sense of basic beliefs shared by members of a group and understanding political discourse to be a class of genres defined by a social domain, namely that of politics. The ways in which ideologically based beliefs are exhibited in discourse and discursive evidence in the interplay of several ideologies are analysed in the form of a debate on asylum seekers in the British House of Commons. Parliamentary debates are particularly revealing for these purposes because their text and content exhibit the social cognitions of political parties and their members. An analysis of this particular debate shows how political discourse in general, and parliamentary debates in particular, are replete with ideological expressions and rhetorical tropes at all levels.

scholarly journals Obraz první Československé republiky při projednávání Ústavy ČR

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 197-222
Author(s):  
Klára Marková
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Vaclav Havel ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Actual Content ◽  
Research Questions

This paper focuses on the image of the political system of the first Czechoslovak Republic in the political discourse connected with the preparation of the Czech Constitution in 1992. It works mainly with records of parliamentary debates between July and December 1992 and considers three types of actors: members of committees working on the constitution, constitutional lawyers and political figures with a significant informal influence, such as Václav Havel. The author asks three interrelated research questions: How was the first Czechoslovak Republic portrayed in the debates on the Czech Constitution? In what context of the discussions and argumentations did the First republic reappear? And what role did the image of the Czechoslovak Republic play in the debates? As I argue, the system of the first Czechoslovak Republic was presented almost always positively, framed by concepts of tradition, democracy, sovereignty, and stability. Conversely, the Senate was portrayed more negatively, as a symbol of inefficiency, futility and expensiveness. The political system of the First Republic and the Constitution of 1920 represented an issue that could not be ignored and had to emerge through discourse. Some speakers did not always portray it properly and rarely spoke about the problematic aspects of the functioning of the political system of the First Republic. However, it was always alluded to as a symbol whose meaning was often more important than its actual content, as it could confirm the legitimacy of power relationships and express identification with a given political line. The fact that the actors chose only certain images of the First Republic, mostly the positive ones, illustrates that they sought to use the power of the symbol of the First Republic.

scholarly journals Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Fuggle
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Penal Colonies ◽  
French Colonial

This article takes up the specific example of Poulo Condor (the Con Dao archipelago in Vietnam) as colonial prison island in order to examine this persistence of colonial island imaginaries built around the imagined project of the prison island well into the middle of the 20th century. Such imaginaries appear to run counter to dominant political discourse of the period along with ongoing media campaigns calling for the end to penal transportation and overseas penal colonies. This article contends that closer attention needs to be paid to the disjuncts and gaps between the official discourse of the French colonial authorities located in France and the enactment of such discourse in the colonies themselves. The central focus of the article is a close analysis of correspondence between colonial officials stationed in French Indochina from 1925 onwards; these documents will be contextualised with reference to the longer histories of both the Con Dao archipelago and France’s use of prison islands. An understanding of Poulo Condor as a complex extralegal space will be framed by Ann Laura Stoler’s concept of the ‘colony’ as it develops Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the ‘state of exception’ and Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘security’. What emerges is an ongoing colonial pathology which continues to fixate on the prison island as a key colonial stake even after such a stake has become increasing untenable.

War rhetoric of a little ally

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teun A. van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
War Rhetoric ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Context Models

In this paper we examine some of the properties of the speeches by former Prime Minister José María Aznar held in Spanish parliament in 2003 legitimating his support of the USA and the threatening war against Iraq. The theoretical framework for the analysis is a multidisciplinary CDA approach relating discursive, cognitive and sociopolitical aspects of parliamentary debates. It is argued that speeches in parliament should not only be defined in terms of their textual properties, but also in terms of a contextual analysis. Besides an analysis of the usual properties of ideological and political discourse, such as positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation and other rhetoric devices, special attention is paid to political implicatures defined as inferences based on general and particular political knowledge as well as on the context models of Aznar’s speeches.

scholarly journals ‘Grandmas’ in debate: A first-person story told in Taiwan’s presidential debate as a rhetorical device and public reactions to its credibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Ping-Hsuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
First Person ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Local Dialect ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
Presidential Debate

This study examines data from a 2016 presidential debate in Taiwan to explore the use of first-person narrative in political discourse as a rhetorical device, and how public reactions to its credibility are influenced by the narrative’s context. While previous studies of political debate discourse (e.g. Kuo 2001) investigate, for example, the use of “constructed dialogue” (Tannen 2007), there is a lack of studies focusing on first-person narrative in political debates. Using three-level positioning as outlined by Bamberg (1997), I analyze a narrative featuring a grandma character told by presidential candidate Eric Chu, also comparing it to another candidate James Soong’s “grandma narrative.” I argue that the context places constraints on the effects of their narratives. Whereas Chu’s narrative, a traditional Labovian first-person story, is widely ridiculed with memes for its lack of credibility, Soong’s narrative, a habitual narrative, receives little attention.The analysis shows how Chu’s narrative serves his rhetorical purposes and suggests why the public doubts its credibility. At level 1 (characters positioned vis-à-vis one another), Chu presents himself as non-agentive with constructed dialogue, thereby excusing an earlier decision he made -- failing to keep his promise to finish his term as a mayor. At level 2 (speaker positioned to audience), he switches from Mandarin to Taiwanese, a local dialect, which can be seen as an appeal to his current audience. At level 3 (identity claims locally instantiated), the grandma character draws on the archetype of elderly women in Taiwanese culture, fundamental to national economic growth, while his description of praying at a temple casts him against the local tradition of religious practices in Taiwan. The study helps fill the knowledge gap regarding first-person narrative in political discourse, while highlighting the context in which political narratives are embedded and contributing to understanding positioning in Taiwanese public discourse.

Staged conflicts in Austrian parliamentary debates

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
Helmut Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Opposition Party ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Conflict Talk ◽  
Inaugural Speech

Abstract This paper analyzes the rhetorical formats used by Austrian members of parliament (MPs) to express disagreement with previous speakers during the so-called ‘inaugural speech debates’. During these debates, MPs position themselves publicly as either government or opposition party representatives. Disagreeing with previous debate contributions represents a positioning practice that focuses on the interpersonal plane of interaction. The strict procedural rules of the debates, however, prevent MPs from engaging in genuine conflict talk. MPs rather use four rhetorical formats for signalling conflict with a previous speaker. This paper analyzes these strategies as well as their use by different groups of MPs and discusses their face aggravating/ impoliteness potential. Finally, it relates the results to previous studies of face work in political discourse.

CHARLES I, CLEMENT COKE, AND SEDITION

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-693
Author(s):  
MICHAEL B. YOUNG
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
Stuart Period ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Member Of Parliament

ABSTRACTClement Coke was a minor figure of the early Stuart period, especially in comparison to his brilliant and prominent father, Sir Edward Coke. People seem to have taken note of ‘Fighting Clem’ only when he engaged in a duel or punched another member of parliament. In the parliament of 1626, however, he briefly gained notoriety when he faced an unusually formidable adversary, Charles I, who accused him of making a seditious speech. A close analysis of this episode reveals much about the broad concept of sedition and the unstable atmosphere in the House of Commons. Coke's case also had repercussions later in this parliament and perhaps even in the next parliament where his father championed the Petition of Right. Yet the most interesting aspect of Coke's case is what it reveals about the mindset of the king. In contrast to the stereotypical view of Charles as prickly and paranoid, he appears here to have been both perceptive and prescient. Thus, this article, like work by the late Mark Kishlansky, concludes that we should take Charles I's view of the political landscape more seriously.

scholarly journals Digitizing localism: Anticipating, assembling and animating a ‘space’ for UK hyperlocal media production

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Direct Production ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Media Space

This article presents an unconventional view of media production, not as the direct production of media content or forms, but the cultivation of spaces for media production taking place elsewhere. I draw on a close analysis of Destination Local, a program of UK charity Nesta, which focused on the implications of location-based technologies for the emergent field of ‘hyperlocal’ media. Although the first round of the program – the focus in this paper – funded 10 experimental projects alongside extensive research, my argument is that Destination Local was less a matter of enabling specific place-based hyperlocal media outlets. Rather, it was an attempt to anticipate, assemble and animate a broader UK hyperlocal media ‘space’, composed of both technical ecologies (e.g. data, devices, platforms, standards) and practical fields (e.g. journalism, software development, local government, community activism). This space, I argue, was anchored to a largely implicit political discourse of localism.

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