Componentes de la imagen social (pública) española a través de un análisis lingüístico de entrevistas en medios de comunicación

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the values that a standard Spanish person desires for his/her public face by means of a sociolinguistic study of interviews made in social mass media. The interviewees are people of public life, socially, culturally or politically recognised. In these discourses I examine different semantic and pragmatic features that reveal aspects of the character’s personality and of the face values he or she owns or wants to show. As theoretical bases I start from the public face concept of Goffman (1967) and from the autonomy and affiliation categories proposed by Bravo (1999) as universal face needs.