Chapter published in:
The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and French
Naomi Truan
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 320] 2021
► pp. 54–84

Chapter 4
Referring to people in parliamentary interaction

Article outline
  • 4.1Corpus: Parliamentary debates in comparison
    • 4.1.1Defining a common genre and a common topic
    • 4.1.2A brief note on the xml annotation
    • 4.1.3On the role of reference corpora
    • 4.1.4The genre of parliamentary debates as an entry point
  • 4.2Talking and debating at the parliament
    • 4.2.1Debates between monologue and dialogue
    • 4.2.2Parliamentary communities of practice
  • 4.3Methodology: Searching for third-person forms
    • 4.3.1Perks and challenges of lemmatization
    • 4.3.2Ensuring the comparability of the data
    • 4.3.3Performing queries on selected lemmas
    • 4.3.4Contrasting, counting, analyzing?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes