Evasion and hedging in the language of parliamentary Question Time
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97492Identifikátory
ISSN: 1805–9635
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- Číslo 2 [6]
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2017Nakladatel
Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaZdrojový dokument
Linguistica PragensiaRok vydání periodika: 2017
Ročník periodika: 27
Číslo periodika: 2
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/Klíčová slova (anglicky)
pragmatics, political discourse, hedging, evasion, parliamentary Question Time, House of Commons(United Kingdom), House of Representatives (Australia)The paper examines evasion and hedging in the language of parliamentary Question Time in the BritishHouse of Commons and in the Australian House of Representatives. It analyses the usage of evasionand hedging, and briefly investigates the relation between these two linguistic phenomena. Moreover,it seeks to test the methodological approach, and the conclusions reached in the previous research, especiallyby Alan Partington (2003) and Bruce Fraser (2010), and to provide a comparative perspectiveon the rhetorical culture and communication conventions in the British and Australian Question Time.