Affiliation:
1. “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy
Abstract
Abstract
The present paper aims to investigate the main argumentative uses of definitions in various communicative contexts of the
parliamentary discourse, on the basis of two sets of data, selected from the British and the Romanian Parliaments. Relevant
categories of argumentative definitions are identified and described, by taking into consideration their linguistic structure and
rhetorical features, as well as their current association with other types of arguments and pragmatic strategies. The
cross-cultural and comparative perspective allows us to grasp to what extent the institutional forms, procedural rules and
cultural models can actually influence the argumentative choices and reasoning patterns in the specific cases of the British and
the Romanian Parliamentary discourse.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies