El discurs polític: la immigració com a pretext

El treball és una d’anàlisi del discurs polític que apareix en els programes electorals dels candidats a les presidencials franceses 2012, centrant l’atenció en el terme immigration. L’objectiu és identificar de quina manera expressen la seva ideologia, concretar les semblances, les divergències i els matisos que determinen en els seus discursos.

A presidential election campaign offers a very interesting opportunity to analyze the political discourse that each candidate defends. Coinciding with the French presidential election 2012 we have carried out a study that will show the real message that politicians express when we go beyond the surface of their discourses. Our TFG work centers the attention on the election programs from the fourth best positioned candidates at the moment of the first round presidential election last 22nd April, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen. Therefore our corpus is based on the part their programs devote to immigration. Taking into account that each candidate has chosen a different format to show the program: a letter, a single paragraph or a group of them, an essay; the analyze has been adapted to every one. For paragraphs we have focused the attention on smaller units and for the letter and essay on longer ones. As a result, we have identified different intended uses of text structures; pronouns; verb forms; terminology; subject appearance or disappearance; rhetorical figures etc. that provide candidates with the chance to pronounce their real ideology about immigration. Finally, we get to the conclusion that for most of the candidates, immigration seems not to be a problem but an excuse to declare or not their ideology, to point an opponent as the real trouble or to show off as the unique leader to face Europe. This model of work could be considered in other domains.