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In:A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament
Edited by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez and Gloria Álvarez-Benito
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 68] 2016
► pp. 35–59

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Intensification, identity and gender in the Andalusian Parliament

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Published online: 1 December 2016
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Abstract
Parliamentary discourse is a confrontation talk where ideological positions are related to interactional roles. Intensification is the main politicians’ strategy, an identity device, and a mark of this professional discourse. It appears in all fields: semantic meaning, sentence intonation, stress, illocutionary acts, grammatical structures and argumentative operators. Men and women use it in a similar way. This chapter aims at analysing parliamentary discourse from a pragmatic perspective, where ideology and identity work together in the process of cognitive and discourse construction.
Article outline
  • 1.Parliamentary discourse and intensification
  • 2.Intensification, device or strategy?
  • 3.Discourse functions of es que
  • 4.Quantitative study
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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