El “yo” de los políticos: ¿cuestión de género?

Esperanza R. Alcaide Lara

doi:10.14198/dissoc.6.1.2

The “I” of the politicians: Question of gender?

Authors

Esperanza R. Alcaide Lara Universidad de Sevilla, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4640-9381

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/dissoc.6.1.2

Keywords:

Political discourse analysis, personal subject pronoun explanation, sexual variable, social rol

Abstract

In this paper, we approach to the study explanation of the personal subject pronoun yo (PSP) in the political discourse, specifically in the parliamentary intervention. Our aim is to detect the connection between this phenomenon and social variables, like sex, or other factors, like ideology, social rol, etc. We have realized a quantitative and qualitative study of this aspect in reports of proceedings in Parliament of Andalusia between January of 2010 and December of 2011. The conclusion is that the PSP explanation is connected with the speaker and his communicative aim, though the sexual variable is very important in certain uses.

Funding

Este trabajo se inscribe dentro del Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucía “La perspectiva de género en el lenguaje parlamentario andaluz” (HUM 5872), cofinanciado con fondos FEDER.