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Publication details [#14281]
Pérez de Ayala, Soledad. 2001. FTAs and Erskine May: Conflicting needs? - Politeness in Question Time. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (2) : 143–169. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article takes a look at how British Members of Parliament use politeness strategies to conform their discourse to the guidelines of Erskine May's Treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament, thereby creating a sort of 'institutionalized hypocrisy'.