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Parliamentary communication

The case of the Russian Gosduma

Abstract

This study attempts to capture the characteristics of parliamentary debates in the Russian State Duma (Gosduma) according to the following criteria: quality of data (e.g. editorial specifics of the transcripts), turn-taking system, forms of address, Internet communication and TV coverage. The comparison of the Russian findings with the British Hansard Report reveals a striking contrast: the Russian data manifests a far broader range of variation in many respects, which is obviously due to much more liberal or even completely lacking regulations. It seems to be a fair assumption that these diverging attitudes can be partly explained by the different prestige of both institutions in their respective societies: in particular, as can be seen in numerous examples quoted, the Gosduma resents the lack of attention, if not the disrespect it experiences from government representatives, television, as well as the broad public.

Abstract

This study attempts to capture the characteristics of parliamentary debates in the Russian State Duma (Gosduma) according to the following criteria: quality of data (e.g. editorial specifics of the transcripts), turn-taking system, forms of address, Internet communication and TV coverage. The comparison of the Russian findings with the British Hansard Report reveals a striking contrast: the Russian data manifests a far broader range of variation in many respects, which is obviously due to much more liberal or even completely lacking regulations. It seems to be a fair assumption that these diverging attitudes can be partly explained by the different prestige of both institutions in their respective societies: in particular, as can be seen in numerous examples quoted, the Gosduma resents the lack of attention, if not the disrespect it experiences from government representatives, television, as well as the broad public.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors ix
  4. Introduction and overview 1
  5. Part I. Multimodal, grammatical and paralinguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
  6. Talking out of turn 17
  7. Reanimating responsibility 35
  8. Eye behavior in Russian spoken interaction and its correlation with affirmation and negation 63
  9. Hesitation markers in transitions within (story)telling sequences of Russian television shows 85
  10. Part II. Statistical analysis of Russian talk-in-interaction
  11. Russian everyday utterances 105
  12. Speech rate as reflection of speaker’s social characteristics 117
  13. Part III. Displaying and negotiating epistemic and evidential status and evaluation in interaction
  14. How evaluation is transferred in oral discourse in Russian 133
  15. ‘This is how I see it’ 147
  16. How can I lie if I am telling the truth? 167
  17. Part IV. Facework and contextualization in interaction – From (im)politeness to humor
  18. Irony in the face(s) of politeness 187
  19. Parliamentary communication 213
  20. Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness 237
  21. Humor as staging an utterance 257
  22. Part V. Language alternation in face-to-face interaction of bilingual families
  23. Bilingual language use in the family environment 281
  24. Russian language maintenance through bedtime story reading? 295
  25. Index 317
Approaches to Slavic Interaction
This chapter is in the book Approaches to Slavic Interaction
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.20.16weis

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors ix
  4. Introduction and overview 1
  5. Part I. Multimodal, grammatical and paralinguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
  6. Talking out of turn 17
  7. Reanimating responsibility 35
  8. Eye behavior in Russian spoken interaction and its correlation with affirmation and negation 63
  9. Hesitation markers in transitions within (story)telling sequences of Russian television shows 85
  10. Part II. Statistical analysis of Russian talk-in-interaction
  11. Russian everyday utterances 105
  12. Speech rate as reflection of speaker’s social characteristics 117
  13. Part III. Displaying and negotiating epistemic and evidential status and evaluation in interaction
  14. How evaluation is transferred in oral discourse in Russian 133
  15. ‘This is how I see it’ 147
  16. How can I lie if I am telling the truth? 167
  17. Part IV. Facework and contextualization in interaction – From (im)politeness to humor
  18. Irony in the face(s) of politeness 187
  19. Parliamentary communication 213
  20. Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness 237
  21. Humor as staging an utterance 257
  22. Part V. Language alternation in face-to-face interaction of bilingual families
  23. Bilingual language use in the family environment 281
  24. Russian language maintenance through bedtime story reading? 295
  25. Index 317
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