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Books by Laura Filardo Llamas

Mediante el análisis de la canción del El Huecco " Se acabaron las lágrimas " , en este artículo ... more Mediante el análisis de la canción del El Huecco " Se acabaron las lágrimas " , en este artículo se busca conseguir un doble objetivo. Por un lado, comprender cómo las canciones, y otras manifestaciones culturales, sirven para responder a determi-nados acontecimientos sociales, como por ejemplo la violencia de género. Por otro lado, se busca identificar las estrategias discursivas que se utilizan en dicha can-ción para oponerse a la violencia de género, y cómo estas contribuyen a establecer una relación de empatía con el receptor. Para ello adoptamos un enfoque multimo-dal, que entiende que la canción es un discurso unitario compuesto de diversos modos comunicativos (texto, música e imagen, en su caso). Combinando dicho en-foque multimodal con el Análisis Crítico del Discurso pretendemos comprobar cómo las estrategias discursivas utilizadas en esta canción sirven para, al menos aparentemente, combatir creencias fuertemente arraigadas en determinados este-reotipos de género.

Abstract
Keywords Gender-based Violence Multimodal Discourse Critical Discourse Analysis Song
In this paper, we study El Huecco's song " Se acabaron las lágrimas " (The tears are over) with a double objective. On the one hand, we intend to understand how songs, and other cultural manifestations, can be used as a response to given social problems, such as gender-based violence. On the other hand, we intend to identify the discourse strategies which are used in this song to oppose domestic violence, and also to see how these discourse strategies are helpful to establish an emphatic relationship with the audience. To do so, we adopt a multimodal approach which understands the song as a unitary discourse made of different communicative modes (lyrics, music and image, at least in this case). We combine that multimodal approach with Critical Discourse Analysis with the objective of explaining how the identified discourse strategies are used to oppose commonly-held beliefs about the role that women, and men, have in society.

In this chapter I analyse a set of Spanish whose aim is to fight domestic violence. I hypothesise... more In this chapter I analyse a set of Spanish whose aim is to fight domestic violence. I hypothesise that the multimodal nature of songs makes them more effective in spreading this message. To prove this, a cognitive approach to discourse studies will be followed. By relying on the postulates of Text-World Theory and Discourse Space Theory, not only the reality that is textually constructed in the songs can be uncovered, but also the ideological relation between the singer, the audience and that reality. The meaning potential of the lyrics is widened if we consider songs as a multimodal blend. Thus, the analysis will also incorporate tools aimed at uncovering the meaning potential of music and images. The analysis will prove that it is this combination of semiotic resources that renders the songs communicatively effective, thus turning these into an important socio-political practice in the fight against domestic violence.

Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse, 2016

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse A... more Bringing together a body of related research which has
recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this
book is the first to address the role of perspective in
socio-political discourse. The contributions to this
volume seek to explore the way in which perspective
functions in three dimensions – space, time, and
evaluation – to enact ideology and persuasion. A range
of discourse genres are analysed, including political
discourse, media discourse, and songs used as political
tools. Contributors: P. Dunmire, P. Cap, L. Filardo-Llamas, Chr. Hart, B. Kaal, M. Kypotowska, J. Marin-Arrese. (reprint of Critical Discourse Studies 12(3) Special Issue)

Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más popul... more Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más populares dentro de la cultura hip hop: el rap. En este sentido, se recogen un conjunto de contribuciones que gravitan en torno a dos de los aspectos fundamentales del rap: su concepción como un acto de respuesta política vinculado a una comunidad concreta, y la interpretación de este género musical como el intento ego-centrado, por parte de un artista de la palabra, MC, de construir, reivindicar y mantener su identidad individual. Mediante estudios que provienen en su mayoría del ámbito de la filología, la mitad de los ensayos recogidos en este volumen estudian cómo contribuye el rap a luchar contra mecanismos de exclusión social a la vez que se construyen nuevas comunidades. De igual modo, el resto de capítulos analizan la función social del rap como consecuencia de su valor subjetivo y de la creación de la personalidad del individuo. Estos son los dos grandes ejes que vertebran este volumen, cuyo contenido se despliega a lo largo de tres ubicaciones geográficas: Estados Unidos, país de origen del rap; Francia, principal país europeo productor de rap; y España. Termina el volumen con una crónica del rap en España durante los primeros años del siglo XXI, realizada por una de las principales autoridades españolas en el estudio del movimiento hip hop.

This collection offers analyses of Gower’s works in three different contexts: Manuscript Contex... more This collection offers analyses of Gower’s
works in three different contexts:
Manuscript Contexts, Socio-Historical
Contexts, and Literary/Linguistic Contexts.
Essays, by both established and up-andcoming
scholars alike, stress the importance
of the material, social, historical and political
circumstances related to the production and
interpretation of Gower’s works.
Part One, Manuscri–pt Contexts, addresses
the physical and material situations in which
Gower’s texts may be found. In this section,
authors move from the micro-study of words
to the study of the relationship between
Gower’s works and other literary texts or
works related to the socio-political contexts.
In includes contributions on glosses, Iberian
manuscripts, and English legal texts. Part
Two: Socio-historical Contexts, includes
essays which interpret Gower’s texts by
relying on the historical context in which
these were produced. This section includes
essays on medieval conflict resolution,
representations of love and fortune in the
Confessio Amantis, and Gower’s leveraging of
Spain in English politics. Finally, given
Gower’s interactions with both English and
continental literary traditions, Part Three:
Literary and Linguistic Contexts explores
such aspects as the Elijah tradition, the
possibilities of ethical readings, Gower’s
radical poetics, and the importance of context
in shaping Gower’s translations.
This volume promises to inform approaches
to Gower’s works for years to come, especially
given renewed interest in his continental and
Iberian connections and influences.

Papers by Laura Filardo Llamas

Peace and Conflict Studies, 2008

This paper employs the hypothesis that one of the functions of political discourse is to legitimi... more This paper employs the hypothesis that one of the functions of political discourse is to legitimise a perceived point of view by promoting certain representations of a socio-political reality. It could be argued that the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement creates a paradoxical reality in Northern Ireland because its language is so vague that it can be interpreted in different ways. This paper analyses linguistic categories used in the text of the Agreement to reveal the type of peaceful reality promoted and the constructive ambiguity used to facilitate agreement. It argues that the success of the peace process depended to a large extent on the particular nuances of discourse in and around this crucial document.

Journal of Language and Politics, 2022

In this article we study the discursive construction of the EU managerial role in the early stage... more In this article we study the discursive construction of the EU managerial role in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in four Spanish newspapers: two published in mainland Spain – El Mundo and El País – and two published in Catalonia – La Vanguardia and ARA. By doing a qualitative study of newspapers, this article aims to identify which discourse strategies are used when informing about the actions and decisions taken in European political and economic fora. The analysis identifies the three main generic frames which are used in news pieces: morality (mostly as a call for solidarity), economic (mostly as preventing possible harm), and conflict (focused on divide(s) within (EU)rope). The activation of these frames in the news pieces contribute to an implicit legitimation of the existence of (EU)rope as based on two core values – solidarity and cooperation – together with a delegitimation of the actions performed by some European institutions.

This chapter concerns the double objective of political discourse: spreading ideological beliefs ... more This chapter concerns the double objective of political discourse: spreading ideological beliefs and allowing political progress. Political discourse can be effective by means of carefully chosen linguistic elements (pronouns, lexical referents, metaphors). If successfully constructed, the discourse can live on for many years, as we see in the Northern Irish Agreement of 1998 that is still resounding in current debates. Its ambiguity and vagueness allowed for different interpretations, in such a way that the support, or rejection, of the agreement could be legitimised, depending on the ideological beliefs of the community. An analysis of selected instances of its discourse over time shows how the ideological and political positions that are discursively constructed in such a way that they are close to both the producers and the interpreters of the document, but also to the political process of production and interpretation in which the texts are embedded. Text World Theory and Cogni...

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies, 2017

Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict, 2021

This chapter analyses early political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic by three politicians: Pe... more This chapter analyses early political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic by three politicians: Pedro Sanchez in Spain, Boris Johnson in the UK and Donald Trump in the USA. All three have been criticized in the media by using war rhetoric. Thus, the chapter seeks to shed light on how the activation of the war/conflict frames interacts with force dynamics in the early conceptualizations of the virus, and how these may also eventually justify polarized views of society. For this aim, the statements given by the three politicians in the month of March have been qualitatively analysed. This qualitative analysis has departed from corpus identification of concordances and has also been combined with the identification of instances of militarizing metaphors. The analysis shows how the three politicians originally rely on a basic opposition between society and the virus. However, intertextual appeals to former historical conflicts are also activated, thus allowing for a construal of the metaphorical war against the virus as being similar to others where enemies were “visible.”

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse A... more Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse. The contributions to this volume seek to explore the way in which perspective functions in three dimensions – space, time, and evaluation – to enact ideology and persuasion. A range of discourse genres are analysed, including political discourse, media discourse, and songs used as political tools. Contributors: P. Dunmire, P. Cap, L. Filardo-Llamas, Chr. Hart, B. Kaal, M. Kypotowska, J. Marin-Arrese. (reprint of Critical Discourse Studies 12(3) Special Issue)

Proceedings of the 30th International Aedean Conference Recurso Electronico 2007 Isbn 978 84 96826 31 1, 2007

The purpose of this paper is to analyse some of the uses of person deixis, as exemplified by pers... more The purpose of this paper is to analyse some of the uses of person deixis, as exemplified by personal pronouns, by the main Northern Irish Parties in the 2003 Assembly-election campaign. The corpus of the analysis will be a selection of 12 broadcasted TV advertisements, which we believe are representative not only of political but also of advertising communication. We suspect that in political discourse pronoun selection is frequently determined because of the pragmatic values the chosen pronouns may promote. Therefore, we hypothesise that through pronominal choice political parties can show their solidarity - or distance - with certain political identities, mainly by relying on the political opposition between "us" and "them". Moreover, pronoun selection seems to be a useful persuasive device because of the affective framework that deictics - and more specifically pronouns - can establish between both the speaker and the addressee.

Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más popul... more Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más populares dentro de la cultura hip hop: el rap. En este sentido, se recogen un conjunto de contribuciones que gravitan en torno a dos de los aspectos fundamentales del rap: su concepción como un acto de respuesta política vinculado a una comunidad concreta, y la interpretación de este género musical como el intento ego-centrado, por parte de un artista de la palabra, MC, de construir, reivindicar y mantener su identidad individual. Mediante estudios que provienen en su mayoría del ámbito de la filología, la mitad de los ensayos recogidos en este volumen estudian cómo contribuye el rap a luchar contra mecanismos de exclusión social a la vez que se construyen nuevas comunidades. De igual modo, el resto de capítulos analizan la función social del rap como consecuencia de su valor subjetivo y de la creación de la personalidad del individuo. Estos son los dos grandes ejes que vertebran este volumen, cuyo contenido se despliega a lo largo de tres ubicaciones geográficas: Estados Unidos, país de origen del rap; Francia, principal país europeo productor de rap; y España. Termina el volumen con una crónica del rap en España durante los primeros años del siglo XXI, realizada por una de las principales autoridades españolas en el estudio del movimiento hip hop.

Critical Discourse Studies, 2013

ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to describe and understand the language of paramilitary... more ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to describe and understand the language of paramilitary groups in the Northern Irish context, taking statements issued by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) as an example. In order to do so, we depart from a broad understanding of political discourse. So as to understand how beliefs, actions and the IRA existence are legitimised in those statements, Text-World Theory is combined with critical discourse analysis approaches. Chilton's notion of ‘discourse worlds’ is considered the main legitimising strategy, and these – understood as mental representations – are identified by relying on a micro-analysis of linguistic choices. Thirty-nine IRA statements delivered after the 1998 Agreement have been analysed in order to understand both synchronic responses to given socio-political events and diachronic changes related to the advances of the Northern Irish Peace process.

La huella de Cervantes …, 2007

Información del artículo Lectures on "Lolita": la influencia cervantina en Vladimir Nab... more Información del artículo Lectures on "Lolita": la influencia cervantina en Vladimir Nabokov.

Sociedad, consumo y …, 2008

Información del artículo La mujer perfecta, ¿realidad o ficción?: análisis de género en revistas ... more Información del artículo La mujer perfecta, ¿realidad o ficción?: análisis de género en revistas juveniles.

Mediante el análisis de la canción del El Huecco " Se acabaron las lágrimas " , en este artículo ... more Mediante el análisis de la canción del El Huecco " Se acabaron las lágrimas " , en este artículo se busca conseguir un doble objetivo. Por un lado, comprender cómo las canciones, y otras manifestaciones culturales, sirven para responder a determi-nados acontecimientos sociales, como por ejemplo la violencia de género. Por otro lado, se busca identificar las estrategias discursivas que se utilizan en dicha can-ción para oponerse a la violencia de género, y cómo estas contribuyen a establecer una relación de empatía con el receptor. Para ello adoptamos un enfoque multimo-dal, que entiende que la canción es un discurso unitario compuesto de diversos modos comunicativos (texto, música e imagen, en su caso). Combinando dicho en-foque multimodal con el Análisis Crítico del Discurso pretendemos comprobar cómo las estrategias discursivas utilizadas en esta canción sirven para, al menos aparentemente, combatir creencias fuertemente arraigadas en determinados este-reotipos de género.

Abstract
Keywords Gender-based Violence Multimodal Discourse Critical Discourse Analysis Song
In this paper, we study El Huecco's song " Se acabaron las lágrimas " (The tears are over) with a double objective. On the one hand, we intend to understand how songs, and other cultural manifestations, can be used as a response to given social problems, such as gender-based violence. On the other hand, we intend to identify the discourse strategies which are used in this song to oppose domestic violence, and also to see how these discourse strategies are helpful to establish an emphatic relationship with the audience. To do so, we adopt a multimodal approach which understands the song as a unitary discourse made of different communicative modes (lyrics, music and image, at least in this case). We combine that multimodal approach with Critical Discourse Analysis with the objective of explaining how the identified discourse strategies are used to oppose commonly-held beliefs about the role that women, and men, have in society.

In this chapter I analyse a set of Spanish whose aim is to fight domestic violence. I hypothesise... more In this chapter I analyse a set of Spanish whose aim is to fight domestic violence. I hypothesise that the multimodal nature of songs makes them more effective in spreading this message. To prove this, a cognitive approach to discourse studies will be followed. By relying on the postulates of Text-World Theory and Discourse Space Theory, not only the reality that is textually constructed in the songs can be uncovered, but also the ideological relation between the singer, the audience and that reality. The meaning potential of the lyrics is widened if we consider songs as a multimodal blend. Thus, the analysis will also incorporate tools aimed at uncovering the meaning potential of music and images. The analysis will prove that it is this combination of semiotic resources that renders the songs communicatively effective, thus turning these into an important socio-political practice in the fight against domestic violence.

Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse, 2016

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse A... more Bringing together a body of related research which has
recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this
book is the first to address the role of perspective in
socio-political discourse. The contributions to this
volume seek to explore the way in which perspective
functions in three dimensions – space, time, and
evaluation – to enact ideology and persuasion. A range
of discourse genres are analysed, including political
discourse, media discourse, and songs used as political
tools. Contributors: P. Dunmire, P. Cap, L. Filardo-Llamas, Chr. Hart, B. Kaal, M. Kypotowska, J. Marin-Arrese. (reprint of Critical Discourse Studies 12(3) Special Issue)

Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más popul... more Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más populares dentro de la cultura hip hop: el rap. En este sentido, se recogen un conjunto de contribuciones que gravitan en torno a dos de los aspectos fundamentales del rap: su concepción como un acto de respuesta política vinculado a una comunidad concreta, y la interpretación de este género musical como el intento ego-centrado, por parte de un artista de la palabra, MC, de construir, reivindicar y mantener su identidad individual. Mediante estudios que provienen en su mayoría del ámbito de la filología, la mitad de los ensayos recogidos en este volumen estudian cómo contribuye el rap a luchar contra mecanismos de exclusión social a la vez que se construyen nuevas comunidades. De igual modo, el resto de capítulos analizan la función social del rap como consecuencia de su valor subjetivo y de la creación de la personalidad del individuo. Estos son los dos grandes ejes que vertebran este volumen, cuyo contenido se despliega a lo largo de tres ubicaciones geográficas: Estados Unidos, país de origen del rap; Francia, principal país europeo productor de rap; y España. Termina el volumen con una crónica del rap en España durante los primeros años del siglo XXI, realizada por una de las principales autoridades españolas en el estudio del movimiento hip hop.

This collection offers analyses of Gower’s works in three different contexts: Manuscript Contex... more This collection offers analyses of Gower’s
works in three different contexts:
Manuscript Contexts, Socio-Historical
Contexts, and Literary/Linguistic Contexts.
Essays, by both established and up-andcoming
scholars alike, stress the importance
of the material, social, historical and political
circumstances related to the production and
interpretation of Gower’s works.
Part One, Manuscri–pt Contexts, addresses
the physical and material situations in which
Gower’s texts may be found. In this section,
authors move from the micro-study of words
to the study of the relationship between
Gower’s works and other literary texts or
works related to the socio-political contexts.
In includes contributions on glosses, Iberian
manuscripts, and English legal texts. Part
Two: Socio-historical Contexts, includes
essays which interpret Gower’s texts by
relying on the historical context in which
these were produced. This section includes
essays on medieval conflict resolution,
representations of love and fortune in the
Confessio Amantis, and Gower’s leveraging of
Spain in English politics. Finally, given
Gower’s interactions with both English and
continental literary traditions, Part Three:
Literary and Linguistic Contexts explores
such aspects as the Elijah tradition, the
possibilities of ethical readings, Gower’s
radical poetics, and the importance of context
in shaping Gower’s translations.
This volume promises to inform approaches
to Gower’s works for years to come, especially
given renewed interest in his continental and
Iberian connections and influences.

Peace and Conflict Studies, 2008

This paper employs the hypothesis that one of the functions of political discourse is to legitimi... more This paper employs the hypothesis that one of the functions of political discourse is to legitimise a perceived point of view by promoting certain representations of a socio-political reality. It could be argued that the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement creates a paradoxical reality in Northern Ireland because its language is so vague that it can be interpreted in different ways. This paper analyses linguistic categories used in the text of the Agreement to reveal the type of peaceful reality promoted and the constructive ambiguity used to facilitate agreement. It argues that the success of the peace process depended to a large extent on the particular nuances of discourse in and around this crucial document.

Journal of Language and Politics, 2022

In this article we study the discursive construction of the EU managerial role in the early stage... more In this article we study the discursive construction of the EU managerial role in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in four Spanish newspapers: two published in mainland Spain – El Mundo and El País – and two published in Catalonia – La Vanguardia and ARA. By doing a qualitative study of newspapers, this article aims to identify which discourse strategies are used when informing about the actions and decisions taken in European political and economic fora. The analysis identifies the three main generic frames which are used in news pieces: morality (mostly as a call for solidarity), economic (mostly as preventing possible harm), and conflict (focused on divide(s) within (EU)rope). The activation of these frames in the news pieces contribute to an implicit legitimation of the existence of (EU)rope as based on two core values – solidarity and cooperation – together with a delegitimation of the actions performed by some European institutions.

This chapter concerns the double objective of political discourse: spreading ideological beliefs ... more This chapter concerns the double objective of political discourse: spreading ideological beliefs and allowing political progress. Political discourse can be effective by means of carefully chosen linguistic elements (pronouns, lexical referents, metaphors). If successfully constructed, the discourse can live on for many years, as we see in the Northern Irish Agreement of 1998 that is still resounding in current debates. Its ambiguity and vagueness allowed for different interpretations, in such a way that the support, or rejection, of the agreement could be legitimised, depending on the ideological beliefs of the community. An analysis of selected instances of its discourse over time shows how the ideological and political positions that are discursively constructed in such a way that they are close to both the producers and the interpreters of the document, but also to the political process of production and interpretation in which the texts are embedded. Text World Theory and Cogni...

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies, 2017

Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict, 2021

This chapter analyses early political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic by three politicians: Pe... more This chapter analyses early political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic by three politicians: Pedro Sanchez in Spain, Boris Johnson in the UK and Donald Trump in the USA. All three have been criticized in the media by using war rhetoric. Thus, the chapter seeks to shed light on how the activation of the war/conflict frames interacts with force dynamics in the early conceptualizations of the virus, and how these may also eventually justify polarized views of society. For this aim, the statements given by the three politicians in the month of March have been qualitatively analysed. This qualitative analysis has departed from corpus identification of concordances and has also been combined with the identification of instances of militarizing metaphors. The analysis shows how the three politicians originally rely on a basic opposition between society and the virus. However, intertextual appeals to former historical conflicts are also activated, thus allowing for a construal of the metaphorical war against the virus as being similar to others where enemies were “visible.”

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse A... more Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse. The contributions to this volume seek to explore the way in which perspective functions in three dimensions – space, time, and evaluation – to enact ideology and persuasion. A range of discourse genres are analysed, including political discourse, media discourse, and songs used as political tools. Contributors: P. Dunmire, P. Cap, L. Filardo-Llamas, Chr. Hart, B. Kaal, M. Kypotowska, J. Marin-Arrese. (reprint of Critical Discourse Studies 12(3) Special Issue)

Proceedings of the 30th International Aedean Conference Recurso Electronico 2007 Isbn 978 84 96826 31 1, 2007

The purpose of this paper is to analyse some of the uses of person deixis, as exemplified by pers... more The purpose of this paper is to analyse some of the uses of person deixis, as exemplified by personal pronouns, by the main Northern Irish Parties in the 2003 Assembly-election campaign. The corpus of the analysis will be a selection of 12 broadcasted TV advertisements, which we believe are representative not only of political but also of advertising communication. We suspect that in political discourse pronoun selection is frequently determined because of the pragmatic values the chosen pronouns may promote. Therefore, we hypothesise that through pronominal choice political parties can show their solidarity - or distance - with certain political identities, mainly by relying on the political opposition between "us" and "them". Moreover, pronoun selection seems to be a useful persuasive device because of the affective framework that deictics - and more specifically pronouns - can establish between both the speaker and the addressee.

Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más popul... more Este libro constituye un acercamiento académico a una de las manifestaciones artísticas más populares dentro de la cultura hip hop: el rap. En este sentido, se recogen un conjunto de contribuciones que gravitan en torno a dos de los aspectos fundamentales del rap: su concepción como un acto de respuesta política vinculado a una comunidad concreta, y la interpretación de este género musical como el intento ego-centrado, por parte de un artista de la palabra, MC, de construir, reivindicar y mantener su identidad individual. Mediante estudios que provienen en su mayoría del ámbito de la filología, la mitad de los ensayos recogidos en este volumen estudian cómo contribuye el rap a luchar contra mecanismos de exclusión social a la vez que se construyen nuevas comunidades. De igual modo, el resto de capítulos analizan la función social del rap como consecuencia de su valor subjetivo y de la creación de la personalidad del individuo. Estos son los dos grandes ejes que vertebran este volumen, cuyo contenido se despliega a lo largo de tres ubicaciones geográficas: Estados Unidos, país de origen del rap; Francia, principal país europeo productor de rap; y España. Termina el volumen con una crónica del rap en España durante los primeros años del siglo XXI, realizada por una de las principales autoridades españolas en el estudio del movimiento hip hop.

Critical Discourse Studies, 2013

ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to describe and understand the language of paramilitary... more ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to describe and understand the language of paramilitary groups in the Northern Irish context, taking statements issued by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) as an example. In order to do so, we depart from a broad understanding of political discourse. So as to understand how beliefs, actions and the IRA existence are legitimised in those statements, Text-World Theory is combined with critical discourse analysis approaches. Chilton's notion of ‘discourse worlds’ is considered the main legitimising strategy, and these – understood as mental representations – are identified by relying on a micro-analysis of linguistic choices. Thirty-nine IRA statements delivered after the 1998 Agreement have been analysed in order to understand both synchronic responses to given socio-political events and diachronic changes related to the advances of the Northern Irish Peace process.

La huella de Cervantes …, 2007

Información del artículo Lectures on "Lolita": la influencia cervantina en Vladimir Nab... more Información del artículo Lectures on "Lolita": la influencia cervantina en Vladimir Nabokov.

Sociedad, consumo y …, 2008

Información del artículo La mujer perfecta, ¿realidad o ficción?: análisis de género en revistas ... more Información del artículo La mujer perfecta, ¿realidad o ficción?: análisis de género en revistas juveniles.

Interlinguistica, 2005

RESUMEN. Todo líder político tiende a auto-regular su imagen para generar en el oyente-lector una... more RESUMEN. Todo líder político tiende a auto-regular su imagen para generar en el oyente-lector una impresión positiva tanto de su persona como de la comunidad a la que representa. En el presente trabajo analizaremos los discursos de aceptación del Premio Nobel de la Paz de 1998 emitidos por John Hume y David Trimble, líderes políticos de los dos partidos norirlandeses más importantes en el momento de concesión del premio. El estudio de la auto-caracterización en ambos textos muestra cómo los líderes regulan su imagen mediante mecanismos discursivos similares. Las diferencias de personalidad se corresponden con diferencias de perspectiva e identidad política, en relación con el contexto del conflicto norirlandés. PALABRAS CLAVE. Análisis del discurso, discurso político, marcadores de personalidad, Irlanda del Norte.

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse

<p>This paper is part of the work carried out in the funded research project Stance and sub... more <p>This paper is part of the work carried out in the funded research project Stance and subjectivity in discourse: towards an integrated model of the analysis of epistemicity, effectivity, evaluation and intersubjectivity from a critical discourse perspective (PGC2018-095798-B-I00).In this paper we propose a protocol for the annotation of evaluative stance across discourse types. We have used the protocol to annotate four 100,000-word corpora in English: opinion articles (The Guardian and The Times), science popularization in the press (The Guardian and The Times), political discourse (speeches delivered by British politicians) and fora on social issues (REDDIT). The development of the protocol has gone through two main stages. The first stage has consisted in a preliminary theoretical definition of the model of evaluative stance and its main categories, drawing from research on stance, evaluation and critical discourse analysis, together with methods for the identification of metaphoricity (du Bois 2007, Martin and White 2005, Pragglejazz 2007, van Leeuwen 2008, Wodak and Meyer 2015, among others). The preliminary model was tested in samples of the corpora and subsequently, the protocol underwent a first initial refinement and revision. The second stage has consisted in a process of establishing a good degree of inter-rater reliability for the full annotation of the corpora. The procedure of inter-rater reliability was carried out by three researchers (Hidalgo-Downing, Pérez-Sobrino, and Williams-Camus) who individually annotated samples from the corpora in four subsequent rounds. A joint discussion followed each round to discuss conflicting annotations and to refine the protocol for the ensuing round. The goal of these series of annotations was to know whether there was any variation in the inter-rater reliability with which evaluative stance was identified across researchers, rounds and genres. The results of the inter-rater reliability tests show a consistent increase in the kappa scores for the value category (positive vs negative evaluation) and, to a lesser extent, for metaphoricity (although, in both cases, kappa scores showed moderate to high agreement). These rounds were complemented with two rounds of annotation of sample texts by the full team (all seven researchers participating in this project) in order to ensure the understanding and uniform application of the criteria of the protocol for the annotation of the whole corpora.</p>

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CADAAD [Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines

Recent years have seen an upsurge of different approaches to discourse analysis, which could be d... more Recent years have seen an upsurge of different approaches to discourse analysis, which could be described as ranging from traditional discourse studies (mainly based on philosophical and sociological theories) to pure discourse analysis grounded in linguistic analysis. Although quite different at first sight, it can be argued that all these models share some common ground, which can be explained by establishing relations between the perspective of political discourse addressed in each model (Cf. Chilton & Schäffner 2002), the CDA stage that is most prominent (Cf. Fairclough 1989), and the communicative meta-function at the core of the analysis (Cf. Halliday & Matthiessen 2004). After presenting an overview of some of the most common approaches to the study of political discourse (based on Boyd & Filardo, forthcoming), in this paper we present our own proposal for a comprehensive approach to Political Discourse Analysis (PDA). The model, already drafted in Boyd & Filardo (forthcoming), envisions a three-tiered approach to PDA which considers (1) text-related features; (2) representation and (3) interaction. We argue that such a model is better suited to today's highly wired new media ecology in which text receivers play an increasingly important role in the dissemination process of (political) text and genre. Through the use of online features users react to and interact with political texts and the various genres they becoming a powerful force in reshaping linguistic and social practice.