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- Demonstrates how blame pervades the discourse of the participants at public inquiries
- Suggests that blame is a healthy and natural part of public life
- Provides a much-needed linguistic analysis of blame
- Argues that whilst the establishment of a blame culture can have negative effects, these are not outweighed by the importance of accountability in civic life
- Uses traditional text linguistic methods, as well as corpus linguistic methods to explore lexical semantics, presupposition, conversational implicature, the notion of the speech act and activity types
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
Authors and Affiliations
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Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
James Murphy
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Discursive Construction of Blame
Book Subtitle: The Language of Public Inquiries
Authors: James Murphy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50722-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50721-1Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50722-8Published: 02 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 310
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Political Communication, Media and Communication, Ethics