Spanish at Work: Analysing Institutional Discourse across the Spanish-Speaking World

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
1 Spanish at Work – Analysing the Discourse of Institutions......Page 16
Part I: Languages, Identities and Media Institutions......Page 24
2 Languages, Identities and Media Institutions in the Spanish-Speaking World......Page 26
3 The Construction of Canarian Identity in the First Telenovela on Canarian Television......Page 31
4 Linguistic Ideology in Galician Factual Radio Broadcasts: towards the Castilianisation of Galician Pronunciation Traits?......Page 50
5 A Gente é Latino: the Making of New Cultural Spaces in Brazilian Diaspora Television......Page 65
6 Tu voz es tu voto: the Role of Spanish in the 2008 United States Presidential Elections......Page 82
Part II Discourse, Persuasion and Performance in Political Institutions......Page 98
7 Discourse, Persuasion and Performance in Political Institutions across the Spanish-Speaking World......Page 100
8 A Critical Analysis of the Housing Policies Aimed at the Extremely Poor: the Case of the Social Development Secretariat of Buenos Aires City......Page 108
9 Contested Talk and the (Co-)Construction of Identity: Spanish Parliamentary Debate......Page 126
10 Political Implicature in Parliamentary Discourse: an Analysis of Mariano Rajoy’s Speech on the 2006 Catalan Statute of Autonomy......Page 145
11 Bolivarianism and Socialism: a Corpus-Driven Investigation into Changes in Hugo Chávez’s Rhetoric......Page 161
Part III Discourse, Interpersonal Relations and the Workplace......Page 178
12 Discourse, Interpersonal Relations and the Workplace in the Spanish-Speaking World......Page 180
13 Managing Intersubjectivity and Establishing Consensus in Two Activity Types: Business Negotiations and Student Workgroups......Page 187
14 Vaya, ¡qué chungo! Rapport-Building Talk in Service Encounters: the Case of Bars in Seville at Breakfast Time......Page 207
15 How to Get Rid of a Telemarketing Agent: Face-Work Strategies in an Intercultural Service Call......Page 223
16 Discourse as a Tool for the Diagnosis of Psychosis: a Linguistic and Psychiatric Study of Communication Decline......Page 242
Bibliography......Page 267
Author Index......Page 293
Subject Index......Page 300