The administration and enforcement of justice in the first presidential debate of the 2012 presidential elections in Mexico and argumentation strategies

Abstract

The debate is a genre of political speech of the modern and representative democracies. As political analysts, we are interested in discussing what discourse mechanisms used during the first presidential debate. How did it contribute to forming the public opinion and making people believe in what is the truth. For it, it is proposed to carry out an argumentative analysis of the interventions of the candidates in relation of the subtopic the administration of justice. The analysis is based on the theorical and methodological frame of J.B. Grize natural logic. It is concluded that in the PRI and PANAL candidates speech there is an important presence the formation of a common opinion through the inter speech, which would contribute to form the public opinion. In the case of the PAN and PRD candidates emotional arguments are more significant than rationale in order to depersonalize of the political thing.