Table of contents
Part I. Parliamentary roles and identities
Political identities in parliamentary debates
Identity co-construction in parliamentary discourse practices
The public and private sphere in parliamentary debate: The construction of the addresser in the Portuguese Parliament
Part II. Ritualised strategies of parliamentary confrontation
The presentation of a new Government to Parliament from ritual to personalisation: A case study from Italy
Patterns of interaction in Austrian parliamentary debates: On the pragmasemantics of unauthorized interruptive comments
The Government control function of the French National Assembly in Questions au gouvernement
Part III. Procedural, discursive and rhetorical particularities of post-Communist parliaments
Managing dissent and interpersonal relations in the Romanian parliamentary discourse
Parliamentary discourse and political transition: Polish Parliament after 1989
Czech parliamentary discourse: Parliamentary interactions and the construction of the addressee
Part IV. Contrastive studies of parliamentary rhetoric and argumentation
Ad-hominem arguments in the Dutch and the European Parliaments: Strategic manoeuvring in an institutional context
Rhetorical Strategies in the British and Spanish parliaments
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