Análisis comparativo del uso de la ironía en el discurso político de Pablo Casado y Pedro Sánchez

Morales Rodríguez, Irene

Análisis comparativo del uso de la ironía en el discurso político de Pablo Casado y Pedro Sánchez

Citation

Morales Rodríguez, I. Análisis comparativo del uso de la ironía en el discurso político de Pablo Casado y Pedro Sánchez. 2021. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48741

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Abstract

During the beginning of 2020, there was a pandemic that hit the five continents of the world, a virus that causes respiratory diseases, called COVID-19. In addition to causing a health, social and economic crisis, this pandemic has also been reflected in Spanish politics. The main focus in the Congress of Deputies of Spain has been the pandemic and, consequently, the theme of the speeches made by Spanish politicians with more representatives in Spain, the President of the Partido Popular (PP), Pablo Casado Blanco, and the President of the Government and of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez. One of the linguistic phenomena used in political speeches is irony, an argumentative resource that is based on enunciations with a hidden message and intention produced in a burlesque and critical tone. But are ironic statements frequent in speeches that focus on a pandemic context that requires transparency, sensitivity and cooperation? This investigation shows that it is actually used and, in addition, it focuses on discovering what type of irony appears in the political speeches of Casado and Sánchez issued during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and who makes more use of it.