James Murphy
List of John Benjamins publications for which James Murphy plays a role.
2018 Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 91–113 | Article
This paper discusses apologies made by politicians at a recent UK public inquiry, the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. I use the freely available data from the Inquiry to explore how politicians apologise in this interactional setting, contrasting it with more… read more
2016 Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 595–617 | Article
This paper discusses apologies made by politicians at a recent UK public inquiry, the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. I use the freely available data from the Inquiry to explore how politicians apologise in this interactional setting, contrasting it with more… read more
2015 Revisiting the apology as a speech act: The case of parliamentary apologies Journal of Language and Politics 14:2, pp. 175–204 | Article
By looking at both apologies made in everyday conversation and those made by politicians in public, I aim in this paper to provide a full set of felicity conditions for the speech act of apology. I also discuss how refinements to previously proposed categories of apology strategies are needed to… read more
2014 (Im)politeness during Prime Minister’s Questions in the U.K. Parliament Pragmatics and Society 5:1, pp. 76–104 | Article
Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) is a weekly, half-hour long session in the British House of Commons, which gives backbench Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Leader of the Opposition (LO) the opportunity to ask the Prime Minister (PM) questions on any topic relating to the government’s policies… read more