Creating disorder

The effect of impending elections on Question Time in two Houses of Representatives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6084285
AutoresIrina Loginova
Año2015
Volumen14
Número6
Páginas801-829
Fecha de publicación2015-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.14.6.04log
OpenAlexW2335041513
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas22

This paper investigates the effect of an upcoming election on disorderly behaviour in two Houses of Representatives: that of the Australian Federal Parliament and that of the New Zealand Parliament. Two hypotheses are tested. The first hypothesis is that, notwithstanding their common origins in the Westminster parliamentary tradition, there are significant genrelectal differences in the way the two Houses respond to the impending election. The second hypothesis is that both will respond by becoming increasingly disorderly. The locus for measuring disorderly conduct is taken from the Wednesday parliamentary Question Time for the year 2007 in the case of Australia and 2008 in the case of New Zealand. All instances of disorderly conduct were tracked and a month-by-month measure was made of each kind of disorder as indicated by Standing Orders. All responses of the Speaker to disorder were also logged. The research shows that both hypotheses are corroborated

General election · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Law · Public Administration