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Deliberative Rhetoric of Parliamentary Debate

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The chapter deals with the parliamentary moves of debating. Parliamentarisation can be connected to practice of debate pro et contra. Parliamentary rhetoric is no merely eloquence or oratory in the classical sense, but parliamentary politics has modified the deliberative genre of rhetoric to a debate between multiple agents in line with the parliamentary procedure. Parliamentary politics is understood as the activity of all members participating in the debate and rhetoric then considers the styles of politicking as moves in the debate, in which the act of debating enjoys a priority over the final decisions. The chapter presents how different faces of rhetoric—genres, maxims, topoi, figures and tropes—serve as tools of parliamentary politics.

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Palonen, K. (2019). Deliberative Rhetoric of Parliamentary Debate. In: Parliamentary Thinking. Rhetoric, Politics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90533-4_4

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