@article{Reber2014,
  author    = {Reber, Elisabeth},
  title     = {Constructing evidence at Prime Minister's Question Time: An analysis of the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see},
  series = {Intercultural Pragmatics},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Intercultural Pragmatics},
  number    = {3},
  issn      = {1613-365X},
  doi       = {10.1515/ip-2014-0017},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-195549},
  pages     = {357 -- 387},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Abstract Constructing evidence constitutes a practice to establish the speaker's authority at Prime Minister's Question Time (PMQT), a weekly half-hour session in the British House of Commons. Here the verb see constitutes a resource for both the questioning Leader of the Opposition (LO) and Members of Parliament (MP) as well as for the responding Prime Minister (PM) to claim first-hand perceptual experience. This paper takes an integrated approach, offering a combined analysis of the grammatical formatting, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see in the context of evidential moves at PMQT. It shows how the verb see is functional in referring to the perceptual basis of a claim made and how its grammatical formatting is reflective of the contingencies of the local interactional context. The analysis is grounded in 32 sessions of PMQT (ca. 16 hrs of video-recordings). The results can be summarised as follows: 1) The evidential function of the verb is achieved through its context-specific grammatical formatting and semantics. 2) The reference to the perceptual basis of a claim evoked by see may co-occur with epistemic qualification and evaluative expressions. 3) The formatting of the verb may be indexical of the political relationship between the questioner and the responding PM.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FetzerWeizmanReber2012,
  author    = {Fetzer, Anita and Weizman, Elda and Reber, Elisabeth},
  title     = {Follow-ups across discourse domains: A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions},
  organization    = {Lehrstuhl englische Sprachwissenschaft},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-71656},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {The edited volume documents the proceedings of the ESF workshop "Follow-ups across discourse domains: a cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions". It examines the forms and functions of the dialogue act of a follow-up, viz. accepting or challenging a prior communicative act, in political discourse across spoken and written dialogic genres. Specifically, it considers (1) the discourse domains of political interviews, editorials, op-eds and discussion forums, (2) their sequential organization as regards the status of initial (or 1st order) follow-up, a follow-up of a prior follow-up (2nd order follow-up), or nth-order follow-up, and (3) their discursive realization as regards degrees of indirectness and responsiveness which are conceptualized as a continuum along the lines of degrees of explicitness and degrees of responsiveness. The chapters come from the fields of linguistics, discourse analysis, socio-pragmatics, communication, political science and psychology, examining the heterogeneous field of political discourse and its manifestation in diverse discourse genres with respect to evasiveness, indirectness and redundancy in mediated political discourse, professional discourse, discourse identity and doing politics, to name but the most prominent questions.},
  subject      = {Pragmatik},
  language  = {en}
}