Interjections inside and outside Parliamentary

1 Interjections inside [and outside] Parliamentary Debates Dr Thomas Scheffer, Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin, Germany 1. This is a talk about interjections. However, I am going to start with something totally different: office work. One could say: invisible work as well. My few remarks on this are based on just a month of fieldwork. 2. I recently started my research on the MP's offices. How, I ask, do the offices and their teams and workers contribute to the parliament in general and to legislative processes in specific? The office-days and -weeks (ordered in electorate-weeks and plenary- weeks) entail various operational demands ranging from isolated acts to extended, pursued, and often interrupted sequences. The following classification can show how parliamentary work is distributed temporally and personally:

• work sequences


• incoming ‘lobbyist'


• only jörg


• legislative initiative


• office


• legitimacy only


• rail-project


• routine office