Discurs polític d'una celebritat i anàlisi crítica del discurs: Mediacions de l'exjutge i diputat Garzón

Resum

The object of analysis of this paper is an interview with the then former judge and newly elected member of parliament Baltasar Garzón, published in El País Semanal in July 1993. The article, entitled "Garzón: the last of the boy scouts", at the same time deals with Baltasar Garzón's present and future in a tone bordering on the informal and serves as a justification of his personal and ideological position.The pivots of the paper are the material to be analyzed and the interpretative viewpoint. On the one level there is the interview, in which the interlocutors talk about political activities and the relationship between the media, the law and democratic order. On another level, the author of the paper, considering that a text is an unfinished process because it needs the participation of the reader in order to acquire meaning, applies the practices and principles of critical discourse analysis. This type of analysis is an interdisciplinary branch of interpretation by means of which researchers clarify the meaning of the discursive practices of politicians and other figures in the media, with the intention of rousing the awareness of those who bear their effects in the form of pressure and power. Following an introduction, the paper discusses the eight guiding principles for activities carried out within critical discourse analysis, explaining each of them in a separate section together with comments on the interview and the rhetorical procedures used in it. These eight principles are as follows: critical analysis deals with social problems: power relations are discursive; discourse constitutes society: discourse performs an ideological task; discourse is historical; the relationship between text and society is mediate; discourse analysis is interpretative and explicative; and discourse is a form of social action.