Estrategias de intensificación en los comentarios digitales sobre noticias en español

2019

Journal of Pragmatics

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Self-mentions (i.e., first person pronouns and self-citations) have proven to be one of the most powerful ways of rhetorical self-projection in academic discourse and their role in the construction of a self that engenders credibility in more overtly persuasive genres, such as political debates, has been extensively studied, given the vast literature on pronouns in political discourse analysis and specifically on their uses in political debates. To gain a better insight into the ways in which politicians can build a credible ethos through a competent and authoritative presentation of themselves in electoral debates, this paper compares the frequency and rhetorical roles of the self-mentions used by the candidates of the two major political parties (i.e., Democrats and Republicans) during the debates held for the United States presidential election of 2016. The Republican candidates (i.e., Trump and Pence) were found to make a notably greater use of selfmentions than their Democratic counterparts (i.e., Clinton and Kaine). Significant differences were also found in the rhetorical roles most commonly adopted by each politician to convey authority through the use of exclusive pronouns and self-citations.

Self-representation in political campaign talk: A functional metadiscourse approach to self-mentions in televised presidential debates

Albalat-Mascarell

2019

Journal of Pragmatics

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The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum

Albalat-Mascarell

2022

PRAG

Little attention has been given to the role of metadiscoursal devices in non-academic discourses with an overtly persuasive component such as political discourse. We address this gap by analysing the presence and function of evidentials and boosters in the 2016 campaign debates on the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (also known as the Brexit referendum). In this vein, our objectives are first, to analyse the evidentials and boosters most frequently used in these debates and relate them to the speakers’ goals, and second, to contrast the use of these devices with the results of the referendum. Data were quantitatively analysed with METOOL, a tool specifically developed to detect metadiscoursal strategies. The results showed how the strategies identified here tended to work in combination towards the representation of a credible self, challenging opposing views on the same issue. Finally, conclusions were drawn.

El respeto al poder en Twitter en la crisis española por el COVID-19

Casares

Gómez

et al. 2021

CLAC

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Los objetivos de este estudio son, primero, proponer una taxonomía de los marcadores de actitud más frecuentes utilizados en Twitter tras los comunicados del gobierno sobre el coronavirus, segundo, investigar si nos muestran que existe una aceptación del poder en España, así como un respeto a sus decisiones y, finalmente, identificar redes semánticas entre los marcadores de actitud. El corpus recopilado para el estudio está compuesto por los tuits que comentan los comunicados del Ministerio de Sanidad y Salud Pública desde el 12 al 16 de marzo de 2020. Una vez analizados los datos con las herramientas METOOL y GePhi, se observó que se desea una relación con el poder más cercana y que aumentaba la agresividad de los tuits. Finalmente, describimos las conclusiones de este estudio.