Raffaele Simone, professor at the University of Roma Tre (Italy), philosophical and political essayist, defines political discourse as "the sum of what politicians say to the people or to their political colleagues. Both directions are different, leading to completely different products. The discourse for the people –the most interesting- is used to announce, promise, attack, criticize, and indicate; it is the true political discourse."

Today, "with the birth of political shows and the immense power gained by the media, political discourse is amplified through these, and often produced specifically so that the media picks up the information and re-launches it," he states.

In other words, according to the expert, "politicians do not talk because they have something to say but rather so that the media spread their words and image. The discourse is generated for the media and by the media and not for and by the people. This aberrant hypertrophy of political aspects in the media is one of the factors of the disgust felt towards politics, anything that is related to politics, and the politicians themselves, which is currently verified throughout the West, including Spain (and, of course, Italy)."

When asked if "anything goes" for the purpose of getting votes, he says that "lying is one of the oldest and best known ingredients of political discourse. The old rhetoric was specifically created to contrast this intrinsic tendency of politicians. European modernity has met new forms of lying and deception: media manipulation, uncontrollable promise, and malicious confusion of sport with civil, and degradation of citizens through a sub-standard media production. It's all part of the modern strategies of political discourse, which is not only verbal production but overall communication strategy, in which discourses in the strict sense, advertising, television programs, popular culture, sports, and so on, are combined."

The essayist concludes that "the issues to which you can apply discourse analysis cover the entire field of political communication. But, as it is a much larger dimension than the traditional analysis of political discourse, the work has become much more complicated. In addition, the multidimensionality of political communication makes its critical decomposition more difficult and makes its effectiveness on the poor village of voters much greater."

Raffaele Simone opened the XI International Congress of General Linguistics held at the University of Navarra 21 to May 23, with the plenary lecture "Semantic Formats." The Congress is organized by the Institute for Culture and Society and the Faculty of Philosophy, with the participation of 400 people.