El registro formal del lenguaje oral diplomático

Abstract

The study is enclosed in the pragmalinguistic analysis of the language of diplomacy in its oral modality within the high and formal register. The major objective is to outline the oral form of this specific language and to evidence that, despite sharing features with the written form, official and ritualised by norm, the oral expression has its own characteristics which constitute its particular outlook. The aim is to be achieved undertaking a semantic-pragmatic analysis of the most relevant phenomena identified in the diplomatic contributions in formal contexts. The applied methodology grounds a qualitative study of the corpus data consisting of speeches at high-level forums. The main result reveals that oral diplomatic communication, like its written correlate, is carried out on the axis of persuasion achieved through various discursive techniques raising the effectiveness of the message. The thesis that verbal activities depend on the convergence of certain factors in communication is confirmed. The conclusion is that formal oral discourse follows conventional norms and rules for precise elaboration of the text, but is also marked by the specificity of oral expression in pursuit of concrete pragmatic objectives. The results provide verified data that allow further research in the said under-studied area.