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The articulation of ‘the people’ in the discourse of Podemos

Year: 2019

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the construction of pueblo ‘people’ and patria ‘homeland’ in the Spanish discourse of Podemos and the party’s relation to la gente ‘the people’ between June 2016 and its second political conference, Vistalegre II (February 2017). The discursive analysis focuses on figures of speech, such as synecdoche and metaphors, followed by a narrative analysis. The data cover the General Secretary of the party, Pablo Iglesias and the head of the branch in Catalonia, Xavier Domènech. We then apply the explanatory logics developed within discourse theory ( Glynos and Howarth 2007 ) to interpret the results of the analysis 1 and we critically reflect on some observed ambiguities in the discourse of Podemos.

Source: Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture

DOI: 10.1075/dapsac.83.06mon

Authors: Nicolina Montesano Montessori, Esperanza Morales-López

Language: English

Topic: Cultural and political discourse analysis

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2967711232

FWCI: 4.871

Cites: 25

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10