Discourse, Persuasion and Performance in Political Institutions across the Spanish-Speaking World

Abstract

This part of the book progresses logically from the previous one insofar as its four constituent case studies explore discourse in political institutions that have a symbiotic relationship with the media. Political state discourse on housing and poverty in Argentina, the focus of Chapter 8, is disseminated to a considerable extent through local government websites and print media (e.g. promotional leaflets). Similarly, interaction in parliamentary debates, the political institution examined in Chapters 9 and 10, is regularly ‘recontextualised’ (Linell 1998) across a range of media, spanning television and radio news through to newspaper op-ed pieces. And political leaders’ national addresses, the context in which analysis of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s discourse is assessed in Chapter 11, are frequently televised and/or made available either in part or in their entirety on the Internet. Different degrees of mestizaje ideológico (ideological mestisation) (Pujante and Morales López 2003: 108) between political and media institutions — and their discourses — thus provide a natural transition between the chapters in Part I and this part of the book.KeywordsPolitical InstitutionPolitical DiscourseCritical Discourse AnalysisLinguistic ResourceParliamentary DebateThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.