Lexical colloquialisation in commissions of the Andalusian Parliament

• Autores: Marina González Sanz
• Localización: A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament / coord. por Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez, Gloria Álvarez Benito, 2016, ISBN 9027206597, págs. 109-128
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Through the analysis of parliamentary interventions in the Andalusian Parliament, it is shown how politicians use lexical colloquial features. We assume that there is an expansion of the colloquial employ of the Spanish language, which also reaches formal discursive types such as the parliamentary interaction. To try to confirm this claim, we work with a corpus of 4 commissions in the Andalusian Parliament, focusing on lexical features. We apply both a quantitative and a qualitative approach to prove that, generally speaking, parliamentarians often use colloquial lexical features. Basing on the gender parameter, we show that there is no relevant difference. Finally, we focus on the causes of this tendency, by addressing the interface of media and political discourse.