Abstract:In this paper, I analyze the construction of the trope of irony in a political interview, more specifically the interview
with a Spanish politician on television in 2013. Its context is the emergence of the 15M, a citizen’s protest movement against the cuts
imposed by the European Union and the Spanish Government. From a theoretical-methodological point of view, I adopt a holistic perspective,
inspired by Halliday’s approach of jointly analysing the form-function relationship and … Show more
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