Book contents
- Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
- Studies In English Language
- Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Reported Speech and Evidentiality
- Chapter 3 Prime Minister’s Questions
- Chapter 4 Data, Transcription, and Methodology
- Chapter 5 Reporting Clauses
- Chapter 6 Reported Clauses
- Chapter 7 Reported Speech and Rhetorical Structures
- Chapter 8 Reported Speech in Recurrent Courses of Action
- Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions
- Book part
- References
- Index
Chapter 3 - Prime Minister’s Questions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2021
- Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
- Studies In English Language
- Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Reported Speech and Evidentiality
- Chapter 3 Prime Minister’s Questions
- Chapter 4 Data, Transcription, and Methodology
- Chapter 5 Reporting Clauses
- Chapter 6 Reported Clauses
- Chapter 7 Reported Speech and Rhetorical Structures
- Chapter 8 Reported Speech in Recurrent Courses of Action
- Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 characterises the interaction at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) as an institutionalised, parliamentary activity in change, in which members of the House of Commons have engaged since the institutionalisation of PMQs in 1961. It is shown that – due to various extralinguistic factors –PMQs has undergone rapid change during the span of 36 years covered by the study. However, it is argued that the institutional backbone of the activity, i.e. the physical set-up of the Chamber, the mediated question–answer sequences as well as the third-person address system, has remained largely the same, which warrants a comparative perspective on the 1978–1988 and 2003–2013 data sets as representatives of the same activity in different times.
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- Quoting in Parliamentary Question TimeExploring Recent Change, pp. 26 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021