Estrategias persuasivas y de construcción de la imagen en el discurso parlamentario femenino de la II República

Abstract

This study focuses on the parliamentary discourse of women during the Second Spanish Republic. Following the approval of the electoral law, three women—Clara Campoamor, Victoria Kent, and Margarita Nelken—participated in the Constituent Assembly. I analyze persuasive strategies (arguments, methods, repetition, reformulation, strategic use of subject pronouns, discourse markers, etc.) employed to construct the image of a confident, determined speaker who confronts opponents without resorting to hostility, despite the overwhelmingly male-dominated environment. Using theoretical tools from linguistic pragmatics and argumentation theory, along with recent insights into political (including female) discourse, the study highlights how Campoamor's female identity influences her argumentation only when deemed advantageous from a persuasive standpoint