Negociando ideologías heterogéneas en el discurso político: Discurso Antiabortista Contemporáneo en España

Julián Albaladejo Suárez; Anne Bannink

doi:10.14198/dissoc.10.3.1

Authors

Julián Albaladejo Suárez University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anne Bannink University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/dissoc.10.3.1

Keywords:

Critical discourse analysis, abortion discourse, ethnography of communication, footing, social actors, gender, media, political discourse, TV, social practices

Abstract

As a case study, this article takes a (critical) discourse look at an interview to the former minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón at ‘El Gato al Agua’, a TV programme concerned with political broadcast. The former minister is interviewed about his reform on abortion ‘Law on the Protection of the Conceived’. The paper focuses on (1) changes in footing (Goffman, 1981) and grammatical person to analyse the degree of personal involvement performed by the politician, (2) the representation of women (Van Leeuwen, 1996) and (3) lexical and argumentational features of ideological construction. The results reveal the tension between Gallardon’s attempt to address a broad public, while maintaining his conservative ideology, veering between stressing his personal challenge and the public interest, between secular and Christian principles and between women’s rights and their traditional role. The findings also point to some argumentational patterns that are increasingly present in the wider circle of conservative political discourse.