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Official Discourse

First published in 1979, Official Discourse is an unofficial report of theoretical investigations into a specific state of practice- the publication of reports of official inquiries into law, order and justice issues. The commissions, tribunals and committees of inquiry scrutinized in this book examine problems arising from wrongful imprisonment, police corruption, industrial picketing, and communal rioting and internment in Northern Ireland.

Focusing on the reasons why government reports take the form they do, the authors venture into the areas of linguistics, psychoanalysis and Marxism. The book is an exercise in discourse analysis, an exercise in theoretical work that looks at the relationships between theory and literary production, and a critique of official conceptions of law, order and justice.

Official Discourse

On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology and the State

Frank Burton and Pat Carlen

First published in 1979

by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

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1979 Frank Burton and Pat Carlen

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ISBN 13: 978-0-415-81429-4 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-203-06751-2 (ebk)

Official Discourse

On discourse analysis, government publications, ideology and the state

Frank Burton and Pat Carlen

Routledge & Kegan Paul

London, Boston and Henley

First published in 1979

by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

39 Store Street, London WC1E 7DD,

Broadway House, Newtown Road,

Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1EN and

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and printed in Great Britain by

Page Brothers Ltd, Norwich, Norfolk

Frank Burton and Pat Carlen 1979

No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission from the
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Burton, Frank

Official discourse. (International library of sociology).

1. Government publications Social aspects Great Britain

2.Great Britain Government publications

I. Title II. Carlen, Pat

301.161 Z2009 7940783

ISBN 0 7100 0328 5

We would like to thank Mark Cousins, Ronnie Frankenburg, Laurie Taylor and Keith Tribe for reading and commenting on various parts of the manuscripts; and Doreen Thompson at the University of Keele and Ruth Newton at City University for doing such splendid typing for us. A special word of thanks is due to Ian Duncanson who not only generously allowed us to plagiarise his unpublished paper on the Common Law but also allowed us to use it for purposes for which it was certainly not intended.

Frank Burton, City University

Pat Carlen, University of Keele

Pageant of Parliament by A. P. Herbert

(First printed in Punch, vol. 186, 27 June 1934, p. 708; reprinted in Mild and Bitter, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1936 and Royal Commissions of Inquiry by H. Clokie and J. Robinson, 1937.)

I saw an old man in the Park;

I asked the old man why

He watched the couples after dark;

He made this strange reply:

I am the Royal Commission on Kissing,

Appointed by Gladstone in 74;

The rest of my colleagues are buried or missing;

Our Minutes were lost in the last Great War.

But still Im a Royal Commission

Which never has made a Report,

And acutely I feel my position,

For it must be a crime (or a tort)

To be such a Royal Commission.

My task I intend to see through,

Though I know, as an old politician,

Not a thing will be done if I do.

I never can remember how exactly we began,

But I seem to recollect a case about a clergyman;

A mountain was delivered, rather strangely, by a mouse;

There were meetings, there were articles and questions in the House;

The necessity for action was clear to everyone,

But the view was very general that nothing could be done,

And the Government courageously decided that the Crown

Should appoint a score of gentlemen to track the trouble down

Which always takes a long, long time.

We first explored the history of human osculation,

The views of the Mohammedans, the morals of the nation,

And the significance (if any) of existing legislation

And that took a long, long time.

Next a little doubt arose about the limits of our reference,

We accordingly approached the Government with deference,

Having ascertained that kisses were of every kind and sort

Some kisses, for example, being long and others short

Did the Government expect us to investigate the latter?

The Government replied that it didnt really matter

Disraeli was a member, but he very soon resigned;

Lord Arrow died in 98, old Rattle lost his mind;

Still, once a month, in winter, we assembled to discuss;

And then the Boer War broke out, which interrupted us

And that took a long, long time.

We then collected evidence, but carefully dismissed

The opinion of anyone who actually kissed;

We summoned social workers from the cities of the North,

Good magistrates from Monmouth, Nonconformists from the Forth;

We summoned all the bishops who were over sixty-one

And asked if they were kissed and, if they were, how it was done

They answered in the negative and said there was abundant

Support for the opinion that the practice was redundant

And that took a long, long time.

We next examined doctors with extremely high degrees,

Who thought that osculation was the cause of Brights Disease,

And one or two Societies existing to suppress

All frivolous activity, including the caress;

Industrial employers said that kissing always tends

To economic conduct and is bad for dividends.

Just then the Great War happened; our proceedings were adjourned;

Two members joined the constables and seven were interned.

And I think that it was during that unfortunate campaign

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