Humor as a regulatory face work mechanism within the parliamentary debate
Journal Title: Textos en Proceso - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
This paper aims to present an interactional analysis of the functioning of humour that occurs within a strongly regulated genre, such as parliamentary debates. In particular, the sessions, which took place in the regional chamber of Madrid, the Assembly of Madrid, between the years 2010 and 2011. The focus is set on features such as politeness and, specially, facework, which is seen as the politicians’ ethos project before their audience, both as public office and as private persons. Likewise, the analysis emphasises specifically on the way that mockery affects the speaker’s self-face: both either increasing it, by means of appearing as a witty person, or reinforcing it, by means of revealing the bonds of connivance, which may exist between him and the members of his party. The conclusion that can be extracted is that humour allows parliamentarians to keep their criticism within the boundaries of what is democratically acceptable, and at the same time to perform a self-assessment operation, with the intention of decreasing the face of their adversaries.
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Alejandro Romero Nieto
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- DOI 10.17710/tep.2017.3.2.4romeronieto
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