Grammar in Political Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23733385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anita Fetzer (0000-0002-2616-1561, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0480.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4406151529 |
| ISBN | 9781405198431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
Grammar is a complex phenomenon: it may refer to language users' competence of the rules of a language and of its constitutive systems, and it may refer to the description of such a system in a codified text, a reference grammar. In the analysis of political debate—as in other discourse‐based studies—the strategic use of grammar, that is, linguistic forms and their discursive functions in context, has become the focus of investigation. This holds for the strategic use of pronouns or agentless passives to enhance or deflect responsibility, the strategic use of tense, aspect, and modality to attenuate speaker commitment, the strategic use of verb semantics to do leadership in context targeting competence and responsiveness, or the use of quotations, small stories, and social and regional dialects to do ordinariness popularizing a debate to align with ordinary citizens. Political debate comprises parliamentary debates in societal institutions as well as media debates in traditional media and in social media. The political debates may take place between the elites of society, sometimes integrating ordinary citizens (or their voices). With the advent of social media, political debate has been expanded to media users' commenting. With the mediation and medialization of political debate in and across social media, political debate has become a very important kind of mediated discourse, and it is not only the grammar of political debate, which is at issue, but also the grammar of mediated discourse.
Competence (human resources) · Grammar · Linguistics · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Pronouns and people
Making the Social World
Structures of Social Action
Analysing Political Discourse
A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis
The News Interview
Register, Genre, and Style
The Discourse of Politics in Action
Politics as Text and Talk
Metaphor and Political Discourse
Longman grammar of spoken and written English
Studies in ethnomethodology
How To Do Things With Words
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Moral Politics
Political Discourse in the Media
Small stories and accountability of discursive action in mediated political discourse
Introduction
Ideology
A Communicative Grammar of English
Who are we and who are you? The strategic use of forms of address in political interviews
The functions of I think in political discourse
Politically Speaking
The Discourse of News Values
And I quote
Political discourse as mediated and public discourse
And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It
Speech Acts
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |