摘要：El modo subjuntivo es un recurso estratégico importante en la interacción política. El objetivo de este trabajo es averiguar qué valores adquiere en la confrontación política durante una campaña electoral. El enfoque es interaccional (Bolívar 2005, 2007) en tres niveles: lingüístico, discursivo e ideológico. El corpus consiste de 350 noticias de la prensa escrita sobre la campaña presidencial venezolana de 2012. El análisis muestra las estrategias discursivas e ideológicas usadas por Capriles para enfrentar a Chávez. Se concluye que el presente del subjuntivo es relevante para representar el mundo deseado en la política y que las cláusulas subjuntivas tienen un papel estratégico para legitimar la propuesta de un mundo posible supuestamente mejor.
其他摘要：The subjunctive mood may become an important strategic resource in political interaction because it is the mood of irrealis (Bybee 1998, Haverkate 2002, Poplack 2006) or of “situations that are thought, wished or imagined” (Sedano 2011:201). The aim of this paper is to find out which forms are used and which values they acquire in the political context. The approach is interactional (Bolívar 2005, 2007) in three levels: linguistic, discursive and ideological. The corpus consists of 350 news from the Venezuelan written press gathered during the presidential electoral campaign of 2012. The study shows the linguistic forms preferred by Henrique Capriles and the discursive and ideological strategies he used to confront Hugo Chávez. It is concluded that the present subjunctive is relevant to represent a desired world in politics and that subjunctive clauses have a strategic role in electoral discourse because they contribute to legitimate the proposal of a presumable better world.
