Visuo-Material Performances: 'Literalized' Quotations in Prime Minister's Questions

Autor/in	Reber, Elisabeth
Titel	Visuo-Material Performances: 'Literalized' Quotations in Prime Minister's Questions
Quelle	In: AILA Review, 33 (2020) 1, S.176-203 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-0213
Schlagwörter	Speech Communication; Video Technology; Public Officials; Government (Administrative Body); Foreign Countries; Visual Aids; Persuasive Discourse; Legislators; Discourse Analysis; Political Attitudes; Language Usage; Authors; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Government; Regierung; Ausland; Anschauungsmaterial; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Diskursanalyse; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Sprachgebrauch; Author; Autor; Autorin
Abstract	Drawn from a larger project on reported speech in parliamentary interaction (Reber, forthcoming), this paper studies visuo-material performances of so-called "literalized" (Rumsey, 1992) quoting, i.e., verbatim reproductions of original utterances. Taking an interactional-linguistic perspective, I analyze how participants accomplish 'literalized' reported speech through vocal, verbal, and visual cues, recruiting their material documents. The data are culled from video recordings of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), a parliamentary session where the Prime Minister (PM) takes questions from the Leader of the Opposition (LO) and Members of Parliament (MPs) at the British House of Commons. I place my focus on cases where speakers use original documents as visual aids, a classic rhetoric device of persuasion, and show how paper documents are constituted, celebrated, and rhetorically enacted as (seemingly) original documents in embodied, situated ways. As a conclusion, I argue that the display of original documents allows the speaker to make claims of having not only evidential but also experiential access to their sources, a practice that underpins their evidential authority. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01