Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse
Edited by Paul Bayley
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… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 10] 2004. vi, 384 pp.
