Conceptualization of the event and self-reference: the speech of women and men around the parliamentary debate on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in Argentina (2018)

Abstract

The article analyzes from a linguistic-discursive approach the ways of participation of the deputies during the parliamentary debate on the Law of Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy in Argentina (2018) through the gender and voting type variables. The methodological strategy combines two approaches: on the one hand, the quantitative approached proposed by the Variationist Sociolinguistic Approach and on the other hand, a qualitative-quantitative study typical of the Columbia School Linguistics and Ethnopragmatics approach. Our main findings indicate that the gender variable has not had as much relevance in the distribution of the different linguistic selections as it had the voting type variable. Likewise, it is noted that, in the case of the legislative discourses analyzed, a categorical use of self-reference in the singular first person is used it?, unlike what occurs in other subgenres of political discourse.