Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Insulting as (un)parliamentary practice in the British and Swedish parliaments 45
5. Negotiating conflict 87
6. Consent and dissent in British and Italian parliamentary debates on the 1998 Gulf Crisis 111
7. Legitimising and informative discourse in the Kosovo debates in the British House of Commons and the Italian Chamber of Deputies 151
8. Threat and fear in parliamentary debates in Britain, Germany and Italy 185
9. Ways of talking about work in parliamentary discourse in Britain and Spain 237
10. 'Truth, Justice and the American way' 271
11. Parliamentary discourse when things go wrong 301
12. Text and Context of parliamentary debates 339