Commemorative practices of the modern Spanish monarchy: linguistic objectification and communicative-pragmatic context in Felipe VI’s speeches

Abstract

The commemorative discourse of the state leader, reflecting the memorial culture of the national audience, is a conceptual and linguistic unity capable of determining the vectors of national ideology and the social existence logic. The study focuses on the commemorative acts of Philip VI’s institutional communication, their communicative parameters and discursive components. The present article attempts to identify the verbalisation peculiarities of the intentionally conditioned linguocognitive patterns of memory in the Philip VI’s institutional discourse at the level of selected linguistic means (linguistic forms and strategies), as well as to determine the principles of mnemic content selection that justify its modification. The research is carried out taking into account the theoretical approaches adopted in the memory studies and linguomnemology. Public commemoration as a basic component of the monarch’s communicative practice is considered to be a purposeful state policy aimed at actualizing a reference event/name in the national collective memory.

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