The protest as a type of antagonistic disruption in the Spanish Parliament ; La protesta como tipo de incidencia antagónica en el parlamento español

Abstract

Members of Parliament and those who attend Parliament sessions are not only listeners but have the opportunity to react through different types of disruption (Cortés 2015a, 2015b). One of these is protest, which is conceived as a form of verbally expressed disapproval, displaying an opposition both to what is currently stated by the speaker and to forms of disagreement shown by other members of Parliament. However, this particular device of disruption has not received much attention in previous research. In this paper the reasons justifying such protests come under closer scrutiny, together with the conditions propping up their appearance in the co-text and the context of parliamentary speech. Two groups have been identified: those which have been produced to react to the content of the prior speaker's intervention (with different subgroups whether protest goes together with other means of disruption), and those types of protest which react to previous disruption, such as applause. For the study, we have selected a corpus of initial speeches of Presidents (of the Spanish Government) and opposition leaders in Parliamentary debates in Spain between 1997 to 2015; the corpus duration is 29h 13min 51s. ; Hemos de pensar que quienes asisten como parlamentarios a cualquier discurso, lejos de ser solo receptores, tendrán la posibilidad de manifestarse mediante alguna de las distintas formas de incidencias (Cortés 2015a, 2015b); una de ellas es la protesta, entendida como un modo de desaprobación que se expresa verbalmente para oponerse tanto a lo dicho por los oradores como a otras incidencias mostradas por miembros del Parlamento. Su estudio, desde esta perspectiva, apenas ha merecido la atención de los investigadores. En este artículo nos acercaremos a los motivos que justifican tales protestas, así como a sus condiciones de aparición en el co-texto y contexto del discurso parlamentario. Dos grandes grupos cabe establecer: el de aquellas que son originadas especialmente por el contenido que se manifiesta en el mensaje ...