Representación social de la inmigración en el discurso del Partido Popular

This article explores the social representation of immigration that emanates from Partido Popular’s political discourse. Partido Popular (PP) is a political party which was at the head of the state in Spain from 1996 to 2004. From Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, we will carry out a semantic analysis of the main themes and macropropositions that compose the macrostructure of the selected corpus. This corpus is formed by twenty-four parliamentary debates and thirty-two interviews done to different members of Partido Popular about immigration. From this analysis, we will show how underlying ideologies operate, how they appear discursively and they determine the speaker’s linguistic production. In the same way, we will make explicit the forms by which Partido Popular’s discourse constructs and reconstructs prejudices against migrants.