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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Discursive Construction of Blame
    sub title: The Language of Public Inquiries
  name:
    name part: Murphy, James.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 310 p. 8 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame - previously the reserve of moral philosophers, sociologists and psychologists - at a time when public inquiries are being convened with increasing frequency. While the stated purpose of a public inquiry is rarely to apportion blame, this work reveals how blame is nevertheless woven into the fabric of the activity and how it is constructed by the language of the participants. Its chapters systematically analyse the establishment of inquiries, their questioning patterns, how blame can be avoided by witnesses, how blame is assigned or not by an inquiry's panel and how such blame may result in public apologies. The author concludes with an engaging discussion on the value of public inquiries in civic life and suggestions for changes to the processes of public inquiries. This book will appeal to readers with a general interest in public and political language; in addition to scholars across the disciplines of communication, media studies, politics, sociology, social policy, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, rhetoric, public relations and public affairs.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Openings: Terms, conditions and getting started -- Chapter 3: Questioning -- Chapter 4: Blame avoidance -- Chapter 5: The (non-)assigning of blame -- Chapter 6: Apologising -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
  note: by James Murphy.
  subject:
    topic: Discourse analysis
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: Political communication
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Discourse Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general
  subject:
    topic: Political Communication
  subject:
    topic: Media and Communication
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  classification: P302-P302.87
  classification: 401.41
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781137507228
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50722-8
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    record creation date: 180802
    record change date: 20191220131157.0
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