COHESION IN HANSARD

• Main Author: Šimoliūnaitė, Justina
• Other Authors: Roikienė, Dalė
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT) 2010
• Subjects: Philology; COHESION; POLITICS; LANGUAGE; KOHEZIJA; POLITIKA; KALBA
• Online Access: http://vddb.laba.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100902_234433-28426/DS.005.1.01.ETD

It is widely acknowledged that political activities can not exist without language. Both politics and language are interrelated concepts. The relation between politics and language are widely investigated in terms of textual analysis based on language of politics. As Paul Anthony Chilton and Christina Schäffner state in the book Politics as text and talk: analytic approaches to political discourse: “<…> Aristotelian view <…> for language would have evolved to perform social functions – social functions that would in fact correspond to what we understand as ‘political’.”(Chilton and Schäffner 2002:2) Furthermore, Adrian Beard wrote how both language and politics are interrelated in his book The Language of Politics (2000:18). The author provided textual analysis of language in political discourse. The bachelor thesis explores how cohesion is used in political discourse. In this Research, Hansard, official reports of British Parliamentary debates, have been used to investigate the phenomenon of cohesion. In this paper the term “Hansard” is applied to refer to an official report of British Parliamentary debates. To be precise, two dictionaries have been chosen to define the term “Hansard”. Oxford Guide to British and American Culture for Learners of English provides the following definition of the concept “Hansard”: “the informal name for the Official Report of everything that is said in the British parliament, and in its committees.” (Oxford Guide to British and American... [to full text] === VISUOTINAI PRIPAŽINTA, KAD POLITINĖ VEIKLA NEGALI EGZISTUOTI BE KALBOS. TIEK POLITIKA, TIEK IR KALBA YRA TARPUSAVYJE SUSIETI KONCEPTAI. RYŠYS TARP POLITIKOS IR KALBOS YRA PLAČIAI ANALIZUOJAMAS PAGAL TEKSTO ANALIZE PAREMTA POLITIKOS KALBA. ANTHONY CHILTON IR CHRISTINA SCHAFFNER SAVO KNYGOJE "POLITIKA KAIP TEKSTAS AR KALBĖJIMAS: ANALITINIS POŽIURIS POLITINIAM DISKURSUI", TAIP PAT IR ADRIAN BEARD SAVO KNYGOJE "POLITIKOS KALBA" PATEIKĖ PAVYZDŽIUS BEI ILIUSTRAVO POLITIKOS IR KALBOS SVARBA.ŠIAME BAKALAURO DARBE YRA ANALIZUOJAMA KOHEZIJA OFICIALIUOSE DIDŽIOSIOS BRITANIJOS PARLAMENTO PRANEŠIMUOSE.