Discourse structure and political performance in adversarial parliamentary questioning

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-120

  Fenton Smith, Ben ^a  

^a KANDA UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grammatical metaphor; Parliamentary questions; Political discourse; Question Time; Systemic functional grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149141972     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.7.1.05smi     Document Type: Article

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