El aplauso al presidente Aznar: estructuras sintáctico-pragmáticas que lo propician

Abstract

A round of applause is one of the many incidents (e.g. protests, laughs, murmurs) that may occur when the speaker is giving the speech. Drawing on a classification of the verbal, paraverbal and kinesic components that motivate a round of applause, this paper analyzes the most frequent verbal type, namely, that which depends on syntactico-pragmatic structures (i.e. enumerative listing, argumentative reinforcement, positioning, and contrast). The corpus of analysis used in this paper consists of the speeches delivered by José María Aznar at the Debate of the State of the Nation as president of the Spanish government (1997-2003).