Argumentation in Prime Minister's Question Time: Accusation of Inconsistency in Response to Criticism
In: Argumentation in Context Ser v.15
Intro -- Argumentation in Prime Minister's Question Time -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Tricky turnabouts -- 1.1 Political language, coherence and accountability -- 1.2 Accusations of inconsistency in response to criticism in Prime Minister's Question Time -- 1.2.1 A mini debate on the Government's performance -- 1.2.2 Tabled and supplementary questions -- 1.2.3 Tricky turnabouts -- 1.3 An argumentative perspective: A pragma-dialectical view -- 1.3.1 Meta-theoretical starting points -- 1.3.2 The ideal model of critical discussion -- 1.3.3 Strategic manoeuvring -- 1.3.4 Argumentative activity types -- 1.4 Objectives and organisation of the book -- 2. Confrontational manoeuvring with accusations of inconsistency -- 2.1 Attempts to resist a discussion -- 2.2 The elimination of an initial disagreement -- 2.3 Argumentative confrontations: Dialectical profile and actual practice -- 2.3.1 Dialectical profile of the (ideal) confrontation stage -- 2.3.2 Actual argumentative confrontations -- 2.4 Strategic manoeuvring to dismiss a standpoint -- 2.5 Accusations of inconsistency to dismiss a standpoint -- 3. Prime Minister's Question Time -- 3.1 Accounting for the institutional dimension of argumentation -- 3.2 The argumentative practice of Question Time -- 3.3 The institutional aims of the argumentative practice -- 3.4 The argumentative activity type of Question Time -- 4. The strategic function of responding to criticism with accusations of inconsistency in Question Time -- 4.1 An institutionally strategic outcome -- 4.2 Handling the institutional obligation -- 4.3 Strategic choice of topic, audience frame and stylistic devices -- 4.4 Characteristics of the turnabout -- 5. The reasonableness of accusations of inconsistency -- 5.1 The reasonableness of strategic manoeuvring to dismiss an opinion