Identificador: TDX:4219
Autors: Pinto Vivas, Amanda Magdalena
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Abstract
Metaphors are allies to political speech because they create realities and guide actions (Semino, 2008), they fulfill an heuristic role because they lead to thinking about new, complex, or distant situations (Chilton and Ilvin, 1993). Their cognitive function in political speech is related to their capacity to create new realities. Meaning that metaphors lead us to possible worlds that are constructs created by who thinks, dreams, and tells them. This research is about the critical study of Rafael Correa Delgado’s discourse, Ecuador’s former president (2007-2017), through the rhetorical method, which integrates rhetorical text and rhetorical fact. For the study of the text, we link to this method the critical analysis of metaphors, elements of the theory of possible worlds and the new rhetoric. The text leads to the context, for whose analysis we rely on elements of the theories of the mediatization of politics, the electoral campaign and the ECD theory.
The results show that Correa uses primarily 10 source domain to conceptualize politics, democracy, the opposition government and media’s actions. Through metaphors and possible worlds telling the ex-mandatary communicates a values system and ideas to legitimate his actions and projects that have been disqualified by the opposition, and to establish an emotional bond with the audience. He uses the ideological square of polarization, a discursive strategy of the power groups (Van Dijk, 2016), through which, besides looking for the audience’s support, he defies the power of the opposition, the media, and the elites, while, with certain topics, reproducing the speeches of those areas, and when doing so, affecting the public interest.
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