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Publication details [#66382]

Bull, Peter, Maurice Waddle and Jan R. Böhnke. 2019. “He Is Just the Nowhere Man of British Politics”: Personal Attacks in Prime Minister’s Questions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 38 (1) : 61–84.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

Views from the media, the public, and from inside Parliament have expressed discontent with, reportedly, recent high levels of personally antagonistic behavior in Prime Minister’s Questions. The center of this inquiry is a fine-grained assayof language classified as a personal attack.