Funciones y estructuras discursivas del moderador en el debate político

Abstract

In this paper the author analyzes some aspects related to the moderator role in a political speech sub-genre, a face-to-face debate between two Spanish political leaders in the 1993 general elections of this country. In the first part of the work and from a structural point of view, some cases of triadic sequences are analyzed. For that purpose two interpretative factors are used, the simultaneity/succession axis and the direct allocution/dellocution axis, respectively. The combination of both enables to distinguish some structures in which the moderator appears as one of the vertices of the interlocutive triangle. Finally, in the last section of the work, some attention is dedicated to the functions accomplished by the moderator. Some of these functions are considered as obligatory, like the mediatior or the adjudicator roles as well as the introduction or closing of liminarIes sequences. Others are particular functions, not found in all cases, like the provocator role or the formation of coalitions with the audience.