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Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina and Gloria Álvarez Benito, eds. 2016. A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse. The Andalusian Parliament. (Discourse approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 68). John Benjamins. vii, 222 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question this book tries to answer. Written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, it covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender, identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification, enumerative series, non-literal quotations, pseudo-desemantisation, lexical colloquialisation, emotion, eye contact and time management. It provides a large number of examples from a balanced gender parliament, the Andalusian Parliament, and it focuses mainly on argumentation, since parliamentary discourse is above all argumentative.