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Underwood, Tom W. and Angouri, Jo (2021) "The People Watching at Home” : an analysis of political disagreement in a public inquiry event. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 9 (2). pp. 297-323. doi:10.1075/jlac.00068.und ISSN 2213-1272.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00068.und
Abstract
This paper explores disagreement practice in political discourse, specifically in the under explored public inquiry communicative event and more specifically in the select-committee hearing. We revisit earlier work on theorising disagreement to expand our understanding of its contextual nature, particularly in relation to the making of ideology.
Public inquiries combine the characteristics of professional meetings with characteristics of political discourse. They are typified by hybridised and ambiguous role expectations which participants negotiate in and through (potentially competing) practices in doing the ideological work demanded by the policy process. In this context, disagreement emerges as key to the performance of the interactants’ situated and explicit/semi-permanent roles as professional politicians.
By applying Critical Interactional Sociolinguistic analysis within a wider frame of audience design, we demonstrate the importance of the ideological role of disagreement to the policy process. We argue that further attention needs to be given to the policy talk in meso-level political events, such as the public inquiry, which connect the ideological (macro) political domains of human activity with the (micro) here and now of talk. We close the paper with directions for further research.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | ||||||||
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2213-1272 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 9 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 297-323 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1075/jlac.00068.und | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article is under copyright, the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form (© John Benjamins Publishing Company. This work is licensed under a license. Publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form) | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 June 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 August 2021 | ||||||||
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