Pseudo-desemantisation as a discursive strategy in political discourse

• Autores: Juan Manuel García Platero, María Auxiliadora Castillo Carballo
• Localización: A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament / coord. por Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez, Gloria Álvarez Benito, 2016, ISBN 9027206597, págs. 93-108
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In parliamentary discourse, lexical elements are routinely used by MPs, regardless of ideology and gender factors. The only important difference lies between government and opposition. Therefore, no remarkable lexical innovations are expected. In parliamentary interventions, there is a reduction in ideological polarity and a tendency to use words that suffer a process of pseudo-desemantisation (i.e. loss of its full and original meaning) with an intensifying function.