Análisis de la modalización y la cortesía en el debate parlamentario

Abstract

Este trabajo se centra en el análisis de la modalización y la cortesía dentro del debate parlamentario, y su objetivo es hacer una reflexión sobre las estrategias lingüísticas usadas por los locutores para tratar la imagen del interlocutor, así como sobre las marcas del discurso que desvelan sus creencias políticas.The oral discourse as social interaction is a topic of investigation for sociocultural pragmatics. In this sense, the choice of different verbal courtesy strategies is essential to keep the balance in the interaction and determines the success in communication. Nevertheless, this choice in a specific event like a parliamentary debate depends on social and political factors which have influence o/nn the speaker’s intention. The aim of this article is, on the one hand, to analyze the di fferent courtesy strategies used by the participants in a parliamentary debate in order to determine how the interlocutor's positive and negative image is treated, and on the other hand, to analyze the marks/nthrough which the speakers define their political p osition. In this article, we have contrasted three different ways of treating the interlocutor’s image. We present a corpus of several statements representative of courtesy which have been analyzed in order to see not only the speaker's communicative intention but also the modal elements which are used for emphasizing or attenuating the linguis tic attack to the interlocutor's image. The results show a tendency to attack or protect th/ne interlocutor's positive image and a greater use of metaphors and epistemic modal adverb/ns. Also, the speakers define their political position through the introduction of linguistics marks in their discourse. This analysis can be extended to a wider corpus to verify the data and can also open new lines of research for the knowledge of the complex mental mechanisms that form the/nsocial interactions.