Parliamentary Discourses Across Cultures: Interdisciplinary Approaches

The topic of the volume is in accordance with the growing interest of different specialists in the problems of the political discourse, in general, and of the parliamentary discourse as one of its major sub-genres. Our main goal is to offer a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. The papers aim at highlighting the particular roles played by local social and historical factors, ideologies, collective mentalities, and social psychology in building up culture-specific traditions of political institutions. Approaching the problems from a large variety of theoretical perspectives, the investigations are based on flexible, interdisciplinary, and multi-layered methodologies, fit to offer an image of the multifaceted manifestations of the parliamentary debates. The volume can be of interest for specialists in several fields, such as Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, History, Political Sciences, Sociology, (Social) Anthropology, (Social) Psychology, and Media and Communication.