Texts in Process

Redacción Textos en Proceso — 2025-02-15

Paradigm shift in presidential communication: a disruptive role face. The case of Argentinean President Javier Milei

Cristina del Valle Núñez — 2025-02-15

From a sociocultural pragmatic perspective, face is recognized as the positive image that an individual has of themselves in relation to others (Goffman, 1967). As Bernal (2006) asserts, it has a public and interpersonal nature. For the analysis of the selected corpus, we adopt the concept of role (Goffman, 1961), which we approach through the framework proposed by Hernández Flores (2006), who argues that role "refers to general social characteristics, to others performed in a specific situation, and to others of a discursive nature according to the acts performed" (pp. 637-638). The sociocultural characteristics of the context define both role and face, allowing us to explain the needs behind the speakers’ face and the communicative strategies chosen. The purpose of this qualitative-exploratory study is to determine the change in the the presidential role face based on discursive behavior. We analyze a corpus of 50 speeches by the Argentine president— taken from the official government website and the social network X. Methodologically, we adopt the analyst's introspection (Bravo, 1999) and what we call media consultation. The corpus shows verbal behaviors that constitute role activities which are not in alignment with the expected discursive activities for the social presidential model.

Text, voice messages, emoji, sticker? Mode choice in WhatsApp interactions

Lucía Cantamutto — 2025-02-15

From a pragmatic sociocultural perspective, this work studies an aspect that is still underdeveloped in the field of Digital Discourse Analysis: how speakers perceive the change of mode in the messages exchanged in WhatsApp conversations, more specifically, the transition from text to audio or image. To address this objective, we combine three phases in our methodological approach. First, we analyse the comments circulating in internet as memes about the change of mode. Second, we detect situations of mode change in CoDICE corpus. From these two exploratory steps, we designed a social habits test to identify the sociocultural premises underlying these choices. The instrument was applied to a universe made up of 74 WhatsApp users between 19 and 70 years old, Spanish speakers from Argentina and Spain. The results indicate that speakers combine the forms of communication (written text, audio messages, emojis or other images) for strategic purposes. Likewise, the selection of one or the other modality and, more specifically, the passage from one to the other during an exchange entails social meanings whose effects are projected on the management of the communicative links of the participants.

The corpus of spontaneous conflictive conversation ESPRINT

Marta Albelda Marco — 2025-02-15

This work presents the design of a corpus of spontaneous conflictive conversations between intimate partners and families, as well as the data obtained in its composition. The first section justifies the need to compile linguistic materials of this nature. This corpus fills a methodological and bibliographic gap in the study of informal conversation, complementing the well-established tradition of corpora focused on “harmonious” colloquial conversations. The second section outlines the challenges involved in designing this corpus at each stage —recording, transcription, storage, and accessibility— while addressing the different perspectives involved: legal, methodological, technical, and conceptual, the latter concerning how a communicative conflict is identified. The third section presents the corpus itself, providing details on the data obtained from the conversations and their participants, along with a thorough description of its characteristics.

Book review of Flores Treviño, M. E. (2024). Dispositivos discursivos del poder. Política, educación y género

María Soledad Funes — 2025-02-15

Book review

Book reviw of Flax, R., Hellín, L., Hernández, G., Martínez Romagosa, M., Nudelman, M., Raiter, A., Testoni, F., Venturini, A. V., Zukerfeld, G. y Zullo, J. (2023). Heteróclito y multiforme: debates y propuestas para analizar discursos

Ailén Campos — 2025-02-15