Artículo “The articulation of ‘the people’ in the discourse of Podemos” (2019)

Autoras: Nicolina Montesano Montessori y Esperanza Morales López. Publicado en el siguiente libro:
Imagining the peoples of Europe, eds. Jan Zienkowski & Ruth Breeze, 123-147. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.83(y https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.83.06mon).
Abstract:
This chapter focuses on the construction of pueblo‘people’ and patria ‘homeland’ in the Spanish discourse of Podemos and the party’s relation to la gente ‘the people’ between June 2016 and its second political conference, Vistalegre II (February 2017). The discursive analysis focuses on figures of speech, such as synecdoche and metaphors, followed by a narrative analysis. The data cover the General Secretary of the party, Pablo Iglesias and the head of the branch in Catalonia, Xavier Domènech. We then apply the explanatory logics developed within discourse theory to interpret the results of the analysis and we critically reflect on some observed ambiguities in the discourse of Podemos.
(Versión en español en www.academia.edu y www.researchgate.com).