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Engagement markers in the Spanish general election campaign speeches of 2016

Publicated to:Spanish In Context. 19 (3): 537-562 - 2022-12-20 19(3), DOI: 10.1075/sic.20019.car

Authors: Albalat-Mascarell, Ana; Luisa Carrio-Pastor, Maria

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Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Appl Linguist, Appl Linguist - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Appl Linguist, English Language - Author

Abstract

This paper studies the frequency and functions of engagement markers used in the speeches of the main political leaders in Spain during the Spanish general election campaign of 2016. Our objective is to analyse how the candidates of the main political parties communicated with their voters through the use of engagement markers. To answer this objective, we compiled the transcripts of the most relevant campaign speeches and a debate of the Spanish presidential candidates in 2016 and followed a corpus-driven approach. The results allowed us to observe that Spanish political leaders did use engagement markers differently depending on whether it was a campaign speech or a televised debate. In the conclusions we identified the apparently most frequent engagement markers in contemporary Spanish political election discourse and the implications entailed.

Keywords

DeixisElection campaign debatesElection campaign discourseEngagement markersEnglishFeaturesInterpersonal metadiscourseMetadiscoursePoliticiansReaderVoices

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Spanish In Context due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Literature and Literary Theory. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.67, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-15, the following number of citations:

  • Scopus: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-15:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 2.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 6 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ALBALAT MASCARELL, ANA) and Last Author (Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa.