"Spaniards do not want immigration and La Falange will fight for this"

Immigration has become in the recent years a major§concern for politicians in Spain; very conservative§political parties, as the one studied in this paper,§have projected a negative image of it.§One of the general aims of Critical Discourse§Analysis is to critically analyze the use of language§of those who employ their socio-political position in§order to impose their own ideologies and opinions to§a general audience.§This paper looks at the political discourse produced§by Fernando Cantalapiedra, National Head of a very§conservative Spanish political party, called La§Falange. In an attempt to produce a multimethodical§and multitheoretical view, it combines the most§relevant theories of CDA (Van Dijk 's socio-cognitive§approach, Wodak and Reisigl 's argumentation§theory, and Grice 's theory of the Cooperative§Principle) to critically analyze the most prominent§ideological structures underlying a negative attitude§towards immigrants or immigration and the discourse§strategies used to promote them.§The work is meant for anyone with an interest in§political discourse and immigration as well as for an§academic audience.