Las metáforas políticas en los discursos parlamentarios del presidente Pedro Sánchez durante el confinamiento

Abstract

This article analyzes the political metaphors used by President Pedro Sánchez, in his parliamentary speeches during lockdown in Spain, between March and June 2020. This context of globalized health crisis favored specific uses of political language in various national contexts. This study develops a qualitative methodology that seeks to classify metaphors according to their object and link them with the communicative priorities of each parliamentary speech. The article is theoretically based on the structural metaphor conceived by Lakoff and Johnson to find those unnoticed metaphors in everyday life and on Wittgenstein’s theory of language games. These theories allow us to identify how the use of rhetorical figures it serves to create dominant narratives. This article shows that metaphors used by Pedro Sánchez served three purposes: to legitimize the government’s actions, to inform the population in easily understandable terms and, lastly, to help to retain the political power.