The spoken discursive units most extensively studied thus far (i.e.utterance, act, sub-act) prove too simple and thus inefficient when analyzing long interventions (e.g. lectures, presidential addresses, etc) in general and issues impinging on their sequential nature. This article puts forth a number of broader-scale segmentation categories and deals with their application to the analysis of debates concerning the state of nation, a political debate that is held every year in Spain. To this end, we concentrate on the beginning sequence and, more specifically, on one of the four topics into which this is divided,namely, the topic of urgency. In particular, we pay special attention to the topic and processing patterns as well as to the devices deployed in the interventions in our corpus to achieve specific communicative goals, such as the choice of continuing-reinforcing connectors, adjectives, listing series, etc.
Keywords:
oral discourse, units of segmentation, sequential plane, analysis of political discourse
Cortés Rodríguez, L. (2013). The Topic of urgency in debates concerning the state of the nation. Boletín De Filología, 48(2), Pág. 31 – 48. Retrieved from https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/30236
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