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The Dangerous Discourse of “Us” vs. “Them:” Spain's VOX Discursive Practices Cover

The Dangerous Discourse of “Us” vs. “Them:” Spain's VOX Discursive Practices

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|Oct 2022

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Wodak's (2001) Discursive Strategies

StrategyObjectivesDevices
Referential/nominationConstruction of in-groups and out-groups
  • membership categorization

  • biological, naturalizing and depersonalizing metaphors and metonymies

  • synecdoches (pars pro tato, totum pro pars)

PredicationLabelling social actors more or less positively or negatively, deprecatorily or appreciatively
  • stereotypical, evaluative attributions of negative or positive traits

  • implicit and explicit predicates

ArgumentationJustification of positive or negative attributions
  • topoi used to justify political inclusion or exclusion, discrimination or preferential treatment

Perspectivation, framing or discourse representationExpressing involvement Positioning speaker's point of view
  • reporting, description, narration or quotation of (discriminatory) events and utterances

Intensification, mitigationModifying the epistemic status of a proposition
  • intensifying or mitigating the illocutionary force of (discriminatory) utterances

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238 A legacy of our grandparents, of our elders, which is the only penta
239 continental empires that have existed in the world.
240 A legacy that is the greatest contribution in the universal history to the brotherhood between men
241 with the great work of Hispanity. That work that has brought our language, our culture, our way
242 to see the world throughout the world.

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238 Un legado, el de nuestros abuelos, el de nuestros mayores
239 que es el del único imperio penta continental que ha habido en el mundo. Un legado que
240 es el de la mayor aportación de la historia universal a la hermandad entre los hombres con la gran
241 obra de la hispanidad. Esa obra que ha llevado nuestra lengua, nuestra cultura, nuestra manera de
242 ver el mundo por todo el orbe.

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242 And today we receive here many of those compatriots from Latin America who are fleeing from
243 the communist and Chavista tyrannies and we welcome them. And we thank you for fighting side
244 by side with us in the defense of freedom,
245 democracy and the mother country.

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242 Y hoy recibimos aquí a muchos de esos compatriotas de
243 hispanoamérica que huyen de las tiranías comunistas y chavistas y les damos la bienvenida. Y les
244 damos las gracias por pelear codo con codo con nosotros en defensa de la libertad, de la
245 democracia y de la madre patria.

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171 Freedom is that your
172 daughter goes out to the street, goes to the west park and does not meet a herd. That is freedom.
173 Freedom is that in all the streets of Madrid, in all the neighborhoods and in all the towns there is
174 security. But no, the PP has said that we have a duty to integrate children and give them a future.
175 If they are kids, with their parents in their countries. If they are criminals in the prisons of
176 their countries. We have a duty to our children…

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171 Libertad es que tu hija salga a la calle, vaya al parque del oeste y que no se 172 encuentre con una manada. Eso es libertad. Libertad es que en todas las calles de Madrid, en
173 todos los barrios y en todos los pueblos haya seguridad. Pero no, el PP ha dicho que tenemos el
174 deber de integrar a los niños y darles un futuro. Si son niños, con sus padres en sus países. Si son
175 delincuentes en las cárceles de sus países. Nosotros tenemos un deber con nuestros niños…

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78 Then, there are those who are going to replace Podemos in Spanish politics, “Más Madrid.” When
79 they have been presented at the national level; they say, “More Country.” If they do not dare to
80 say “more Spain”, how are they going to represent the Spanish, if they have the same shame and
81 the same self-hatred regarding our homeland, regarding our collective conscience, our identity,
82 regarding the best inheritance of our parents and of our mothers, which is our homeland.

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78 Luego están los que van a sustituir a podemos en la política española, “Más Madrid”. Que
79 cuando se han presentado a nivel nacional, dicen “Más País”. Si no se atreven a decir más
80 España, cómo van a representar a los españoles, si tienen la misma vergüenza y el mismo auto
81 odio respecto a nuestra patria, respecto a nuestra conciencia colectiva, nuestra identidad, respecto
82 a la mejor herencia de nuestros padres y de nuestras madres, que es nuestra patria.

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41 And we must stop at what this government means and what it represents
42 with respect to violence, because the violence perpetrated against all of you
43 many times for carrying a Spanish flag during this electoral campaigns have been violently
44 incited by the Council of Ministers.

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41 Y hay que detenerse en qué significa y qué representa este
42 gobierno respecto a la violencia, porque la violencia perpetrada contra todos vosotros, muchas
43 veces por llevar una bandera de España durante esta campaña electoral, ha sido una violencia
44 incitada desde el consejo de ministros.

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38 Because together with Rocío, you have done the most difficult thing, and
39 that is to start the campaign of illusion,
40 hope, decency, and freedom against those who have only brought resentment, hatred,
41 violence, censorship, and traps.

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38 Porque junto a Rocío, vosotros habéis hecho lo más difícil
39 y es protagonizar la campaña de la ilusión, de
40 la esperanza, de la decencia y de la libertad frente a los que sólo han traído resentimiento, odio,
41 violencia, censura y trampas.
Language: English
Page range: 211 - 233
Published on: Oct 1, 2022
Published by: Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences
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