Index of names

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Parliamentary roles and identities
5. Political identities in parliamentary debates 29
6. Identity co-construction in parliamentary discourse practices 57
7. The public and private sphere in parliamentary debate 79
8. Part II. Ritualised strategies of parliamentary confrontation
9. The presentation of a new Government to Parliament from ritual to personalisation 111
10. Patterns of interaction in Austrian parliamentary debates 135
11. The Government control function of the French National Assembly in Questions au gouvernement 165
12. Part III. Procedural, discursive and rhetorical particularities of post-Communist parliaments
13. Managing dissent and interpersonal relations in the Romanian parliamentary discourse 193
14. Parliamentary discourse and political transition 223
15. Czech parliamentary discourse 265
16. Part IV. Contrastive studies of parliamentary rhetoric and argumentation
17. Ad-hominem arguments in the Dutch and the European Parliaments 305
18. Rhetorical Strategies in the British and Spanish parliaments 329
19. Index of names 373
20. Index of subjects 375