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Gendering Parliamentary Questions
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2005This article explores MPs' use of parliamentary questions to address gender-related concerns. The discussion is based upon a sample of oral and written questions asked during the 1997/1998 parliamentary session. All questions including the terms ‘women’, ‘men’ and/or ‘gender’ were selected.
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Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
2021Why do recordings of speakers engaging in reported speech at British Prime Minister's Questions from the 1970s–80s sound so distant to us? This cutting-edge study explores how the practices of quoting have changed at parliamentary question time in light of changing conventions and an evolving media landscape.
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RCGP sets questions for parliamentary candidates
BMJ, 2017The Royal College of General Practitioners has put together a set of five questions that GPs can ask parliamentary candidates who come knocking at their front door or surgery. The questions are designed to help GPs draw out candidates’ positions on issues to do with funding for general practice. “We want to make sure patient …
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Impoliteness in parliamentary questions
2019Abstract This chapter aims to examine Polish parliamentary discourse by linking (im)politeness theory with approaches describing questions. To achieve this, a corpus from four Polish Question Times was created, analyzing the degree of impoliteness in all of the 336 questions contained within it.
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Parliamentary Follow ups as Rhetorical Questioning Answering Strategies
Studii și cercetări lingvistice, 2023In parliamentary interaction, more than in other types of institutional dialogue, follow-ups indicate how Members of Parliament (MPs) negotiate not only the pros and cons of topic-related issues, but also their status, roles and power positions. While a follow-up is normally conditioned by preceding turns in a dialogue, and, in its turn, it helps to ...
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Rhetoric and Parliamentary Leadership â Prime Ministerâs Questions
2014Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) is the most conspicuous of a variety of rhetorical events — speeches from the throne, formal debates, ministerial statements, select committee hearings, points of order, prayers — which collectively constitute the proceedings of the UK Parliament.
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BACKBENCH SPECIALIZATION — A STUDY IN PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS
Parliamentary Affairs, 1973Specialization by backbenchers in Parliament has long been accepted as a truism: with the consequence that "there has been no comprehensive examination of specialization in the House of Commons."1 Only recently have demands for the study of specialization been heard in Britain.8 Yet, whilst British academics have been talking of such a study, American ...
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Members of Parliament and Agencies: Parliamentary Questions
1995This chapter seeks to illuminate the debate over the implications for ‘accountability’ of the Next Steps Initiative by an examination of the debate in Parliament over the delegation, by Ministers, of responsibility for answering certain parliamentary questions for written answer to the chief executives of executive agencies.
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The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions
20141. Introduction: Parliamentary Questions, the Behaviour of Legislators, and the Function of Legislatures: An Introduction Shane Martin 2. Parliamentary Questions as Instruments of Substantive Representation: Visible Minorities in the UK House of Commons, 2005-10 Thomas Saalfeld 3. The Constituency as a Focus of Representation: Studying the Italian Case
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Content Reconstruction of Parliamentary Questions
Online Scientific Conference, 2017Carsten Schwemmer +2 more
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