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The Prime Minister’s Questions has always been regarded as one of the most heated debates in Britain’s political arena. As Teresa May stepped on stage, there has been a huge increase in the number of female MPs in the British Parliament. In this study, a corpus which has 10 sessions of PMQs held from October 2017 to February 2018 is compiled. This study has used the appraisal annotation scheme of the BFSU Qualitative Coder 1.2. (Xu & Jia, 2011) based on the appraisal system (Martin & White, 2005) to find out the differences in the appraisals used by the female and male MPs while raising questions. The results show that the most significant differences in the appraisals appear in the following categories: force (-)＞proclaim (-)＞entertain (-)＞disclaim (+)＞attribute (+). Among these discourse strategies, force, proclaim, and entertain are overused by the male MPs while female MPs tend to use more disclaim and attribute. We cannot simply say whether the female MPs or the male MPs are more impolite because numerous social and cultural factors can influence the results of the study. It’s the different strategies used by the female and male MPs that count.

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ABSTRACT
1. Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Interests and Motivation
2. Literature Review
2.1 Face-threatening Discourse
2.2 Adversarial Discourse in the PMQs
2.3 Impoliteness and Gender
3. Theoretical Basis
3.1 The Corpus
3.2 The Instrument
3.3 Data Processing
4. Appraisals Used by Female and Male MPs
5. Conclusion
5.1 Gender Differences in Challenging the Prime Minister
5.2 Reasons behind the Phenomenon
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저자

• Li Jialei [ China Foreign Affairs University ]

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• 간행물명

  Corpus Linguistics Research

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  계간

• pISSN

  2465-812X

• 수록기간

  2015~2025

• 십진분류

  KDC 701 DDC 410