Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Perspectives on parliamentary discourse 1
4. Chapter 1. Speech in the British Hansard 17
5. Chapter 2. Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records 54
6. Chapter 3. Hansard at Huddersfield 89
7. Chapter 4. Empire, migration and race in the British parliament (1803–2005) 118
8. Chapter 5. Leaving the EU out of the ingroup 142
9. Chapter 6. From masters and servants to  employers  and employees 166
10. Chapter 7. From criminal lunacy to mental disorder 194
11. Chapter 8. “The job requires considerable expertise” 227
12. Chapter 9. Processing and prescriptivism as constraints on language variation and change 250
13. Chapter 10. Language variation in parliamentary speech in Suriname 277
14. Chapter 11. Morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation in conditional constructions in English and Spanish parliamentary discourse 308
15. Chapter 12. Colloquialisation, compression and democratisation in British parliamentary debates 336
16. Index 373