21.2515, Qs: Spanish Lang Presidential and Electoral TV Debates

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Subject: 21.2515, Qs: Spanish Lang Presidential and Electoral TV Debates

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Date: 06-Jun-2010
From: Marc Thomas < marthoma at gmx.de >
Subject: Spanish Lang Presidential and Electoral TV Debates
 

	
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:32:09
From: Marc Thomas [marthoma at gmx.de]
Subject: Spanish Lang Presidential and Electoral TV Debates

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Dear LINGUIST List subscribers,

My name is Marc Thomas and I am a university student of Hispanistics 
and Politics in Mainz, Germany.

At the moment I'm preparing to write my Master's thesis about speech 
acts of dissent in Spanish and Latin American presidential debates or,  
more extensively, in electoral debates in the Spanish language. 

As up to now I could unfortunately find only a few transcripts and/or 
video clips of those presidential debates that took place in considerable 
number in the Spanish-speaking world throughout the last couple of 
years. So, I refer to you as the community of linguists to ask for your 
help.

I'm especially interested in the debate between Felipe González and 
José María Aznar in 1993 and was not able to play the flash-video on 
http://www.rtve.es/elecciones/ (video titled "Debates entre González y 
Aznar"); it just won't stream. Can anyone of you give me another 
source for this video or, even better, a textual transcription?

Moreover, I am still looking for electoral debates and their transcripts 
from Latin America, chiefly debates with only two participants such as 
the debate between Sebastián Piñera and Michelle Bachelet (Chile) in 
2006, which was not too hard to find on the internet. But more debates 
took place, such as Mockus vs. Santos (Colombia) some days ago or  
Piñera vs. Frei (Chile, too) in January 2010.

If anyone could help me find videos and/or transcripts of these and 
other such debates, that would be very kind of you, because at the 
moment, I am a little desperate for not being able to widen my analysis 
corpus.

Best regards, and thank you so much for your answers,
Marc Thomas 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics




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