Margarita Nelken. El discurso parlamentario femenino de la II República

Abstract

Margarita Nelken, along with Clara Campoamor and Victoria Kent, was the protagonist in some parliamentary debates during the first legislature of the Second Republic. As this is the first study on the "discursive identity" of member of parliament Margarita Nelken and on the parliamentary discourse of the Second Republic, special attention will be devoted to persuasive strategies and the image construction of the socialist MP. The corpus consists of discourses and replies to the interventions of other Members of parliament in the parliamentary sessions of 20 October 1932, 28 February 1933, and 25 January 1934. The analysis is based on Fuentes Rodríguez's pragmalinguistics model, on the theory of argumentation, as well as on studies on (im)politeness and image. While the characteristics of parliamentary discourse of the nineteen thirties cannot be directly compared with those of current political discourse, Fuentes Ródriguez (2016 and 2018) is applied as a theoretical framework.