Irrelevance in Eu, United Kingdom and Serbian Parliamentary Discourse

Bibliographic Data

ID22326892
AuthorsVladimir Ž Jovanović (0000-0002-5361-4992, University of Nis), Milica Radulović (0000-0002-0642-7166, University of Nis)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue32
Pages217-237
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFolia linguistica et litteraria (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1800-8542 • E-ISSN: 2337-0955
PublisherFaculty of Philology - University of Montenegro (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31902/fll.32.2020.11
OpenAlexW3118844425
LanguageEN
References cited2

The focus of this research paper is the analysis of argumentative moves in parliamentary discourse that could be characterised as irrelevance criticisms. The term criticism is preferred to the more rigorous term fallacy as careful scrutiny is always advised before an argument is disqualified as missing the point. For the purpose of this research, an irrelevance criticism typology was devised to correspond to parliamentary discourse, an epistemic genre supposed to give knowledge and solutions to the debated political and legislative issues. The empirical part of the study is based on a cross-cultural corpus of almost 200 instances of irrelevance criticisms identified in six European Union, United Kingdom and Serbian parliamentary debates surrounding the questions addressed in the post-Brexit decade. The research corpus analysis involves the identification of core irrelevance types, their frequencies and implications within MP and MEP contributions in the parliamentary debates observed

Argumentative · Brexit · Criticism · Economics · Epistemology · European union · Fallacy · Legislature · Linguistics · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Scrutiny · Serbian · Sociology · Typology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · European and International Law Studies · Law · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy