Abstract

PALMA, Alejandra Gabriela. Entre el neutralismo y la confrontación: funciones del discurso referido en entrevistas políticas durante la polémica discursiva por las retenciones móviles en Argentina (2008). RASAL lingüíst. [online]. 2022, vol.2022, n.1, pp.111-136. ISSN 2618-3455.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.56683/rs221031.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the functions of reported speech in political television interviews aired during the 2008 Argentinian polemic regarding new taxes on grain exports (Aronskind & Vommaro, 2010). The theoretical framework includes elements from the Theory of Argumentation in Discourse (Amossy, 2014), Mediated Political Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2005; Fetzer & Weizman, 2006) and Conversation Analysis (Heritage & Clayman, 2010). The corpus consists of four interviews given by two leaders of the agrarian sector to the political news programs A dos voces and Palabras más, palabras menos. By focusing on the analysis of direct and indirect quotes in the discourse of the interviewers, this paper considers: 1) the distribution of the linguistic forms and the type of attribution of the quotes; 2) the functions of these quotes in agenda management; and 3) some strategic uses identified in each program. Results show that, on the one hand, the employment of quotes, in different functions, constitutes a key tool in interviewing practices, and, on the other, that its strategic use seems to point to the configuration of diverse ways to embody the role of interviewer before a discursive polemic.

Keywords : political interviews; discursive polemic; reported speech; mediated political discourse.

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