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Santos, Íris – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
This article seeks to analyse how epistemic work (Alasuutari, 2018; Alasuutari and Qadir, 2019) in Portuguese parliamentary education debates develops through externalisation to world situations (Schriewer, 1990) whose references are used as epistemic capital (Alasuutari, 2018). The study explores debates occurring during Legislature X…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Democracy, Educational Policy
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Reber, Elisabeth – AILA Review, 2020
Drawn from a larger project on reported speech in parliamentary interaction (Reber, forthcoming), this paper studies visuo-material performances of so-called "literalized" (Rumsey, 1992) quoting, i.e., verbatim reproductions of original utterances. Taking an interactional-linguistic perspective, I analyze how participants accomplish…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Video Technology, Public Officials, Government (Administrative Body)
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Charles D. Carpenter – English Journal, 2020
The UK's "Prime Minister's Questions"--a television program that shows parliamentary proceedings and banter between House of Commons members--can be a free, real-world resource for rhetorical analysis opportunities. In this article, the author presents the inherent value of these sessions in the classroom as a means of creatively…
Descriptors: Public Officials, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Discourse Analysis
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Campos-Domínguez, Eva; Esteve-Del-Valle, Marc; Renedo-Farpón, Cristina – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2022
Democracy is based on individuals' ability to give their opinions freely. To do this, they must have access to a multitude of reliable information sources (Dahl, 1998), and this greatly depends on the characteristics of their media environments. Today, one of the main issues individuals face is the significant amount of disinformation circulating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Political Attitudes, Content Analysis
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Peter, Christine Atieno; Mukuthuria, Mwenda; Muriung, Peter – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Presupposition, a linguistic element can be employed in utterances. When this is done it enhances the comprehension of what is being communicated. This aspect of language that is implicit assumption of an utterance is a strategy that may be used to express a speaker's socio-political dominance. The truth of what is said is taken for granted and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Debate, Political Influences, Social Influences
Audette, Julie, Ed.; And Others – 1995
Papers (entirely in French) presented at the conference on linguistics include these topics: language used in the legislature of New Brunswick; cohesion in the text of Arabic-speaking language learners; automatic adverb recognition; logic of machine translation in teaching revision; expansion in physics texts; discourse analysis and the syntax of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Advertising, Arabic, Brain Hemisphere Functions