El discurso postpopulista de Rafael Correaanálisis de entrevistas televisadas en los medios españoles (2012-2014)

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This thesis is a study on a speech made by Rafael Correa, former president of Ecuador, displayed in four different television interviews between 2012 and 2014. The thesis starts with a prologue which contains a preliminary approximation to the concept of speech and its current trends, which we follow both as approach and methodology. The academic and personal reasons to undertake this thesis are also justified. The selected methodology includes both the Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversational Speech Analysis as instruments to figure out the styles and discursive strategies regarding the journalists as well as the politician in order to diagnose if the journalists base their speech on the manipulation and the politician's speech can be classified as populist. In order to reach these conclusions, the four interviews have been transcribed, the data provided have been quantitative as well as qualitative analysed, the discourse concepts, populism and interview gender have also been discussed. Meanwhile, a brief overview to the recent political history of Latin America and more specifically that of Ecuador has also been provided. The thesis results show that there was manipulation in the four interviews and that Correa does not respond to the populist discourse but, in fact, he goes beyond it using some of the parameters that are exposed in the conclusions