Publications

Publication details [#11762]

Martín Rojo, Luisa and Teun A. Van Dijk. 1997. "There Was a Problem, and It Was Solved!": Legitimating the Expulsion of 'Illegal' Migrants in Spanish Parliamentary Discourse. Discourse & Society 8 (4) : 523–566. 44 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | discourse structure | political language

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Analyses of discursive structure indicate that Spanish political legitimation discourse fortifies the maintenance of political power by attempting to monopolize the truth, public discourse and social and political legitimacy.