The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse
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Nieves Hernández-Flores
Abstract
The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between personal deictic expressions and context in political discourse. The focus is on the contextual cognitive and social processes that are involved in conceptualizing deixis as an instrument of ideology and persuasion. The data consist of the transcription of a TV panel discussion between the two principal candidates to the 2008 Spanish general election. The quantitative analysis displays the speakers’ preferences with respect to the use of pronouns. The qualitative analysis describes the speakers’ discourse spaces (Zupnik 1994) in order to discuss the contextual references of personal deixis. The results display the politically strategic use of pronouns by the candidates in order to achieve persuasion.
Abstract
The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between personal deictic expressions and context in political discourse. The focus is on the contextual cognitive and social processes that are involved in conceptualizing deixis as an instrument of ideology and persuasion. The data consist of the transcription of a TV panel discussion between the two principal candidates to the 2008 Spanish general election. The quantitative analysis displays the speakers’ preferences with respect to the use of pronouns. The qualitative analysis describes the speakers’ discourse spaces (Zupnik 1994) in order to discuss the contextual references of personal deixis. The results display the politically strategic use of pronouns by the candidates in order to achieve persuasion.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languages 1
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Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms
- Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms 19
- First person strong pronouns in spoken French 33
- Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern Italian 49
- On the grammar of kinship 69
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Part II. Deixis and impersonality
- Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns 87
- The Spanish impersonal se -construction 109
- Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns 125
- Clitic subjects in French text messages 147
- The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse 171
- Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies 189
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Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system
- The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause 207
- The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approach 227
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Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective
- Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy 253
- Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave 273
- Name index 285
- Subject index 287
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languages 1
-
Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms
- Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms 19
- First person strong pronouns in spoken French 33
- Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern Italian 49
- On the grammar of kinship 69
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Part II. Deixis and impersonality
- Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns 87
- The Spanish impersonal se -construction 109
- Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns 125
- Clitic subjects in French text messages 147
- The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse 171
- Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies 189
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Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system
- The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause 207
- The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approach 227
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Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective
- Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy 253
- Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave 273
- Name index 285
- Subject index 287