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La intensificación en controversias en líneas en español.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Aulit, Laetitia
This article presents an analysis of intensi!cation in a corpus of comments in Spanish to digital press articles about the Moors and Christians festival, a tradition that led to controversies in Spain due to its treatment of certain social groups. Based on Albelda and Briz (2020), intensi!cation is de!ned as a rhetorical and pragmatic strategy of argumentation whereby the speaker strengthens what he says and/or his intention to achieve more ef!ciently his conversational goals. Therefore, this paper looks into the linguistic strategies of intensi!cation, taking into consideration the speci!c interactional contexts in which they appear and the functions they carry out regarding argumentation and face. Based on the methodology developed by Albelda and al. (2014), the results show that intensi!cation appears mainly in moves that respond to the entire discussion in order to strengthen the expression of the personal perspective of the speaker.