Publications

Publication details [#56521]

Bull, Peter and Pam Wells. 2012. Adversarial Discourse in Prime Minister’s Questions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 31 (1) : 30–48.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aggression | discursive practice | face maintenance | parliamentary debate | question-answer sequence

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study argues that face aggravation in UK Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) is a both validated and gratified, accepted kind of parliamentary discourse, whereby MPs may raise their own status via aggressive facework.