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Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Author(s): Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: January 7, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443841978
- ISBN-13: 9781443841979
Book Description
This volume looks at the growing interest of different specialists in the problems associated with political discourse, in general, and parliamentary discourse, as one of its major sub-genres, in particular. Its main goal is to offer a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. The papers aim to highlight the role played by local social and historical factors, ideologies, collective mentalities, and social psychology in building up culture-specific traditions of political institutions. Approaching the problems from a large variety of theoretical perspectives, the investigations are based on flexible, interdisciplinary, and multi-layered methodologies, offering an image of the multifaceted manifestations of parliamentary debates. The volume addresses specialists in several fields, such as linguistics, discourse analysis, history, political science, sociology, (social) anthropology, (social) psychology, media and communication.
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About the Author
Liliana Ionescu-Ruxandoiu is Professor at the University of Bucharest (Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters); Fulbright Professor (1990-1991), University of Washington (Seattle, USA); Visiting Professor, University of Vienna (1996-1999). Teaching and research interests: pragmatics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, argumentation. Main publications: Naratiune si dialog in proza romaneasca. Elemente de pragmatica a textului literar [Narrative and Dialogue in the Romanian Fiction. Elements of a Pragmatics of Literary Texts], Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1991; Conversatia: structuri si strategii. Sugestii pentru o pragmatica a romanei vorbite [Conversation: structures and strategies. Suggestions for a pragmatics of spoken Romanian], Bucuresti, All, 1995 (2nd edition 1999); Limbaj si comunicare. Elemente de pragmatica lingvistica [Language and communication. Elements of linguistic pragmatics], Bucuresti, All, 2003. Editor of several volumes, such as: Cooperation and conflict in in-group and intergroup communication. Selected papers from the Xth Biennial Congress of the IADA, Bucuresti, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2006; Dialog, discurs, enunt. In memoriam Sorin Stati [Dialogue, discourse, utterance. In memoriam Sorin Stati], Bucuresti, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2010. Member of the board of IADA (2005-2012). Coordinator of several projects, among which a corpus of verbal interaction in present-day Romanian, and the project on Romanian parliamentary discourse (CNCSIS grant 2136/2008). Contact: lilianarux@gmail.com
