Publications

Publication details [#53027]

Ilie, Cornelia. 2010. Strategic uses of parliamentary forms of address: The case of the U.K. Parliament and the Swedish Riksdag. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (4) : 885–911.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | directness | discourse strategy | parliamentary debate | reference

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study focuses on how members of the U.K. Parliament and the Swedish Riksdag use and abuse specific addressing and referring strategies to emulate their own agendas and subvert political opponents, as well as to contest institutional role distribution and hierarchical power.