“…Several research articles have dealt with the nature of parliamentary discourse in general (Bayley, 2004; Bianchini, 2008; Ilie, 2003c, 2006). In a number of articles, authors have focused on specific parliamentary speeches (Ensink, 1997; Fløttum and Stenvoll, 2009; Frumuselu and Ilie, 2010; Sauer, 1997; Van Dijk, 2002, 2005), whereas others have written on the use of key words (Bayley and San Vincente, 2004; Bayley et al, 2004; Ilie, 1999; Jose and Moore, 2007; Vasta, 2004) and phraseology (Elspass, 2002). The methodology of corpus linguistics has been employed in the research of similar topics by Bara et al (2007) and Cucchi (2007), as well as by Bijeikiené and Utka (2007), who wrote on gender equality in parliament.…”