From irony to sarcasm: an aproximation to Spanish parliamentary discourse

  • Eva Martínez Díaz Universidad de Barcelona
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17710/tep.2016.2.2.2emdiaz
Keywords: rhetoric, pragmatics, irony, sarcasm, political discourse, sociocultural contexts

Abstract

In this paper we will study the irony gathered in the parliamentary speeches in Spanish language. From this research object, and following the Theory of Argumentation, it is based on the hypothesis that irony in its negative valuation becomes sarcasm (which will come to be understood here as the variant of irony). We will also understand that irony, as a dialectical weapon, is the shield that allows the politician to consolidate his adversary role thanks to the maximum dependence of the sociocultural context. For all this, we will present discursive samples, on the one hand, to defend that this pragmatic resource is a mechanism of cohesion in the discursive process of the ideological argumentation of the politician; on the other hand, to try to categorize the linguistic mechanisms for their expression. 

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Author Biography

Eva Martínez Díaz, Universidad de Barcelona

Eva Martínez Díaz is a professor of the Spanish Language Department of the Department of Hispanic Philology, Theory of Literature and Communication since 1996. Her teaching is based on subjects of synchrony (grammatical description, normative language, pragmatic and sociolinguistic). Her thesis, defended in 2002, is based on the sociopragmatic study of the use of certain periphrasis of obligation in spoken and written Spanish, in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. In short, his research has always been based on sociolinguistic and pragmatic studies. She is currently collaborating in two research projects funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government: The (inter) generational evolution of bilinguations: contexts, maintenance and linguistic substitution (FFI 2015-64459-P) and Language and Parliament. Analysis and characterization of a discursive tradition (FFI2013-41172-P).

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Published
01-06-2016
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Martínez Díaz, E. (2016). From irony to sarcasm: an aproximation to Spanish parliamentary discourse. Texts in Process, 2(2), 194-216. https://doi.org/10.17710/tep.2016.2.2.2emdiaz
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Vol 2 No 2 (2016)
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