THE DICENDI POLYPHONY AS AN ARGUMENTATIVE MODE IN POLITICAL SPEECHES ABOUT COVID-19

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.