Argumentation Aug 2008 Open Access

Institutional Insights for Analysing Strategic Manoeuvring in the British Prime Minister’s Question Time

Dima Mohammed University of Amsterdam

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This paper aims at creating an adequate theoretical basis for a systematic integration of institutional insights into the pragma-dialectical analysis of argumentative exchanges that occur in institutionalised contexts. The argumentative practice of Prime Minister’s Question Time in the British House of Commons is examined, as a case in point, in order to illustrate how the knowledge of the characteristics of an institution, its rules and conventions can be integrated into the pragma-dialectical analysis. The paper highlights the role that theoretical concepts and tools such as strategic manoeuvring, argumentative activity types and dialectical profiles play in this integration.

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Argumentation
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2008-08-01
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10.1007/s10503-008-9090-2
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