- Title
- Resemiotising concerns from constituencies in the South African parliament
- Creator
- Siebörger, Ian, Adendorff, Ralph D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/385362
- Identifier
- vital:68011
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2015.1061892"
- Description
- Members of Parliament (MPs) in South Africa represent different constituencies across the country. In this article, we report on how MPs resemiotise concerns from their constituencies in spoken discourse in a parliamentary committee, and on the effectiveness with which this informa- tion is in turn resemiotised into a written committee report. Both resemiotisations form part of a genre chain which we investigated while conducting a linguistic ethnography of the communica- tion difficulties which occur in parliament's committee process. We use a multi-stranded theoretical foundation, including tools from Systemic Functional Linguistics, Interactional Sociolinguistics and Legitimation Code Theory to analyse MPs’ ability to communicate concerns from their constituen- cies in parliamentary discourse. We conclude that the success of MPs’ resemiotisations of these concerns depends on their ability to rescale them as relevant on a national level, and on their ability to negotiate the power relations at play in parliament.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (27 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R., 2015. Resemiotising concerns from constituencies in the South African parliament. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 33(2), pp.171-197, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies volume 33 number 2 p.171 2015 1727-9461
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