A gender-based approach to parliamentary discourse : : the Andalusian parliament / / edited by Catalina Fuentes-Rodríguez, Gloria Álvarez-Benito.

• TeilnehmendeR: Álvarez Benito, Gloria,; Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Does gender condition politicians' discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender, identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification, enumerative series, non-literal quotations, pseudo-desemantisation, lexical colloquialisation, emotion, eye contact and time management. It provides a large number of examples from a balanced gender parliament, the Andalusian Parliament, and it focuses mainly on argumentation, since parliamentary discourse is above all argumentative. This book will prove invaluable to students and teachers in the field of discourse analysis, and more specifically of political discourse, and will also be very useful to politicians and anyone interested in communication strategies.

Table of Contents

Intro -- A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Gender and political discourse -- 2. Gender and political discourse in the Andalusian Parliament -- 2.1 A gender-balanced parliament -- 2.2 A corpus-based analysis -- 3. Studies on Spanish parliamentary discourse -- 4. Holistic approach to parliamentary argumentation -- 5. Structure of the volume -- References -- 1. Women in the Andalusian Parliament -- 1. The enhanced presence of women in Parliament as an evidence of ever-increasing equality -- 2. Women's opinions on equality and their role in Parliament -- 3. Level of participation -- References -- 2. Intensification, identity and gender in the Andalusian Parliament -- 1. Parliamentary discourse and intensification -- 2. Intensification, device or strategy? -- 3. Discourse functions of 'es que' -- 4. Quantitative study -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 3. Gender differences in enumerative series -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Enumerative series: definition -- 3. Methodology -- 4. The enumerative series in the Andalusian Parliament -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 4. Argumentation and face-threatening acts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus -- 3. The non-literal quotation as a face-threatening act -- 3.1 Quoting the words of an ideological adversary in the House -- 3.2 Quoting the words of an opposing ideological group -- 3.3 Quoting the words of a community or common sense -- 4. Results according to gender and ideology -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 5. Pseudo-desemantisation as a discursive strategy in political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The collocational sphere -- 3. Pseudo-desemantisation -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- 6. Lexical colloquialisation in commissions of the Andalusian Parliament -- 1. Introduction.

2. The parliamentary dynamics -- 3. Data -- 4. Methodological approach -- 5. The analysis of the data -- 5.1 Words without a specific meaning -- 5.2 Colloquial vocabulary -- 5.3 Phraseological units -- a. Proverbs -- b. Phraseological collocations -- c. Idioms -- 5.4 The gender parameter -- 5.5 The media factor -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- 7. Emotional argumentation in political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emotion discourse -- 3. Emotion in parliamentary discourse: the speaker -- 4. Emotion in parliamentary discourse: the hearer -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8. Gender differences in eye-contact behaviour in parliamentary discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Technical material -- 3.2 Procedures -- 4. Turn-type: prepared in advance versus spontaneous questions -- 5. Political colour: ruling party versus opposition party -- 6. Gender differences -- 7. Functions of eye-contact -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- 9. Time, gender and parliamentary discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Quantitative analysis -- 4.2 Qualitative analysis -- 4.3 Regional Minister Mar Moreno -- 4.4 Regional Minister Antonio Ávila -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Conclusions -- References -- Subject Index.