From Oratory to Debate: Parliamentarisation of Deliberative Rhetoric in Westminster

by Kari Palonen

Recent studies manifest a new interest in the politics of internal parliamentary practices. The book presents a thesis that a shift from oratory to debate characterises the parliamentarisation of deliberative rhetoric. Parliamentary speeches are intelligible only as political interventions pro et contra to debates on motions on the agenda and the agenda-setting itself. Scholars of rhetoric and parliaments have been slow to recognise this shift and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 384872913X
• ISBN13: 9783848729135
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.