- Title
- Resemiotising concerns from constituencies in the South African parliament
- Creator
- Siebörger, Ian
- Creator
- Adendorff, Ralph D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2015
- 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
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (27 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
- Relation
- 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
- Relation
- Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies volume 33 number 2 p.171 2015 1727-9461
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