Chapter 11. Strategic maneuvering with presentational choices in Dutch parliamentary debate

Suggesting outsider status by behaving improperly: the linguistic realization of a populist rhetorical strategy in Dutch Parliament

“…Finally, our analysis also elucidates why it is often so difficult for other politicians to deal with populist politicians in parliamentary debate, which has indeed been true for Wilders' colleagues in the last decade. Debating with a politician who systematically violates the decency standards that regulate parliamentary debate means debating with a politician who does not accept or follow a prevailing system of norms ( van Haaften, 2011a;2011b;2017). In conclusion, we illustrate this with Wilders' response to Pechtold's criticism later in the interruption debate that we quoted in Section 3 above (see excerpt (10)).…”

“…It is an adaptation of a lecture given by van Haaften and van Leeuwen (2011). Parts of this analysis have been presented in van Haaften (2011a;2011b;2017) and van Leeuwen (2015;. Albertazzi and McDonnell, 2008, p. 7;Ostiguy, 2009).…”

Argumentative Strategies and Stylistic Devices

“…14 For a more detailed analysis of the argumentative strategies employed by Wilders in the Dutch Lower House, see van Haaften (2017). Wilders' presentational choices have been the object of study by other scholars as well but from different perspectives.…”

Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Confrontations: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional Hearings

“…Pragma-dialectics and strategic maneuvering have been examined in a number of domains including the medical domain (Goodnight, 2009;Goodnight & Pilgram, 2011;Pilgram, 2017;van Poppel, 2017), the legal domain (Feteris, 2009(Feteris, , 2017Jansen, 2017), and the political domain in which previous research has focused on political interviews (Andone, 2009(Andone, , 2013Andone & Gata, 2011), political speeches (Ietcu-Fairclough, 2009;Mohammed & Zarefsky, 2011), press conferences (Peng, 2017;Peng & Zhu, 2015) and debates (Doury, van Haaften & Snoeck Henkemans, 2011;Eckstein & Lefevre, 2017;Plug, 2017;Snoeck Henkemans, 2017;Toader, 2016, van Eemeren & Garssen, 2012van Haaften, 2017;Zarefsky, 2009). To the researcher's knowledge, strategic maneuvering has not been studied in the hearings held in the U.S. Congress nor in non-political issues that are investigated in this legislative body.…”