TY - JOUR
T1 - When in parliamentary debate there is no debate
T2 - Argumentation strategies during Catalonia’s 2017 referendum
AU - Rubio Carbonero, Gema
AU - Franco Guillen, Nuria
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFB2203600); National Natural Science Foundation of China (62071322); Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (19JCY-BJC16900); Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (2020WNLOKF003).
Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2022/8/9
Y1 - 2022/8/9
N2 - On the 1st October 2017 an independence referendum was organised in Catalonia. The aim of this paper is to analyse the nature of the political debate going on in the Catalan Parliament during the whole process by focusing on the kind of argumentation strategies that were used by each of the leanings to legitimise their political decisions. We do that relying on a methodological distinction that differentiates between sound argumentation and fallacious argumentation. By using a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this study offers a wide picture of the kind of argumentation used by the main political actors involved in the process of decision making in Catalonia. The results show that there is more emphasis in antagonising with the others, than engaging in sound argument exchange that could facilitate minimal points of consensus. Such results may help explain why the Catalan conflict is still unsolved at the political level.
AB - On the 1st October 2017 an independence referendum was organised in Catalonia. The aim of this paper is to analyse the nature of the political debate going on in the Catalan Parliament during the whole process by focusing on the kind of argumentation strategies that were used by each of the leanings to legitimise their political decisions. We do that relying on a methodological distinction that differentiates between sound argumentation and fallacious argumentation. By using a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this study offers a wide picture of the kind of argumentation used by the main political actors involved in the process of decision making in Catalonia. The results show that there is more emphasis in antagonising with the others, than engaging in sound argument exchange that could facilitate minimal points of consensus. Such results may help explain why the Catalan conflict is still unsolved at the political level.
KW - Catalonia’s referendum
KW - Topoi
KW - argumentation strategies
KW - fallacies
KW - parliamentary debates
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85136818441&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/jlp.21007.rub
DO - 10.1075/jlp.21007.rub
M3 - Article
SN - 1569-2159
VL - 21
SP - 544
EP - 566
JO - Journal of Language and Politics
JF - Journal of Language and Politics
IS - 4
ER -