(Im)politeness in Politics: Study of the Spanish Electoral debate 2019

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the discursive typologies about (im)politeness used by four Spanish politicians: Pablo Casado, Pedro Sánchez, Pablo Iglesias and Albert Rivera. The corpus examined is the electoral debate that took place on April 28, 2019. As a result, it highlights that the categories most used are: the direct politeness value of flattery (33.18%) when they talk about their own political party, and impoliteness when referring to rival political parties, in particular, negative impoliteness (30.63%), bald on record impoliteness (17.89%) and rude impoliteness (14.39%).