ABSTRACT
Metaphor, as cognitive science has pointed out, is much more than just a rhetorical ornament. With it, a certain image of what is communicated is projected and shared. It also serves to structure thought, analyze society or generate certain expectations about reality. Hence, it has seemed to us that its research is necessary in the case of political speeches, since these are the basis of the agenda of daily social interests, from which a certain perspective of a situation is revealed. For this reason, this text aims to study the transmission of the pandemic in the speeches of Spanish politicians in the Congress of Deputies based on the state of alarm decreed by the Government. The analysis of the identifying metaphoric structures of the Covid-19 with a war conflict has been carried out. Its use has been quantified, and related to the speeches of each political leader. Finally, metaphors have been classified into semantic frames or networks that project a certain image of the disease, and also of the action taken by the Government. © 2022 Universita degli Studi di Milano. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
Metaphor, as cognitive science has pointed out, is much more than just a rhetorical ornament. With it, a certain image of what is communicated is projected and shared. It also serves to structure thought, analyze society or generate certain expectations about reality. Hence, it has seemed to us that its research is necessary in the case of political speeches, since these are the basis of the agenda of daily social interests, from which a certain perspective of a situation is revealed. For this reason, this text aims to study the transmission of the pandemic in the speeches of Spanish politicians in the Congress of Deputies based on the state of alarm decreed by the Government. The analysis of the identifying metaphoric structures of the Covid-19 with a war conflict has been carried out. Its use has been quantified, and related to the speeches of each political leader. Finally, metaphors have been classified into semantic frames or networks that project a certain image of the disease, and also of the action taken by the Government. © 2022 Universita degli Studi di Milano. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
Political discourse is considered the application of a professional use of the language whose main purpose is the adherence of the listeners. To achieve this, they put to work, among other resources, that of the polyphony "of saying”, with which one's own point of view is supported or the opposite is criticized. To see how it develops, this work is focused on the intervention made by the President of the Government in the Congress of Deputies to explain the declaration of the state of alarm during the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis of the polyphonic structures used by him to explain, justify and legitimize the authorization of the royal decree of 03/14/20 has been carried out. This work shows how the president used reinforcing, legitimizing and courteous polyphonic uses in his intervention to manage to project unity and the need to make such a decision. © 2022 Universidad de Cadiz. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
An in situ simulation was performed of a patient with COVID-19 diagnosis that is schedule for emergency surgery. From the arrival to the Emergency Department to the exit from the operating theatre. Previously stablished protocols were performed, and areas of improvement were looked for.