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Social relevance and indoctrinator power of television are apparent facts nowadays. For this reason, deep analysis of different kinds of programs broadcasted by TV is highly relevant. That relevance becomes a social necessity when it comes to talking about certain programs that fill many broadcasting hours, obtain high audience ratings and, most important, have as a salient feature turning verbal aggressiveness into a media show. In that context, this paper deals with a comprehensive analysis and a systematic description of the strategies of verbal impoliteness used daily by talk show guests of Sálvame (a TV show broadcasted by Telecinco), strategies that constitute the usual trend of the development of that program. From a critical perspective and sustained by theoretical principles of pragmatics and conversational analysis, the paper constitutes, in addition, a critical reflection on Sálvame as global communicative phenomenon. The research has been developed on a corpus of almost five hundred minutes of conversation, extracted from a whole week of Sálvame Diario, between the 17th and 21st of December, 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the study of politeness phenomena, small talk is an area that has gained in interest and popularity over recent years (cf. Coupland, 2000b). Given its close connection with phatic communion (Malinowski, 1972 [1923]), it constitutes a valuable resource for maintaining friendly relations in social interaction. This paper deals with the interactional dynamics of small talk in a dialectal variety of Argentinean Spanish, namely Buenos Aires Spanish. It does so from a sociolinguistic perspective, but it also builds on sociocultural pragmatics. The aim of the study is to investigate how small talk operates in both institutional and noninstitutional settings in terms of socio-discursive and pragmatic strategies, and to identify some of the functions that it fulfills. The corpus analysed consists of a range of data collected in Bahía Blanca in the form of notes from participant observation as well as recordings of naturally occurring face-to face interactions. Also included is some consideration of how members of the community under study perceive (Placencia, 2001) and interpret (Gumperz, 1982a; Tannen, 1996) the phenomena in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the use of interjections in relation to the concept of (im)politeness as a function designed to establish a social image both for the speaker and interlocutor. The activities will more or less be carried out according to their discursive needs. This study focuses on television debate. The corpus of the research consists of recordings of different programs which more or less follow a debate structure. The interjection is a resource that guarantees the maximum efficiency of strategies of (im)politeness. It shows the speaker's attitude and intention and expresses them not as objects of speech, but as origin of the speech itself. Thus, it contributes to the discourse with great efficiency as much in a negative as in a positive sense. In this work, I try to prove that the interjection is used as an affiliation activity process in a few contexts and autonomy activity in others, or even both simultaneously, depending on filters of (im)politeness such as the topic, time slot, participants, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]