ABSTRACT
Television has played a key role in defining public political communication, offering reference "frames" for political issues of social relevance, acting as a filter between the political agenda setting and the audience. It shapes political discourse and viewers' perception of it, while heavily influencing expectations of the latter for the former and, consequently, introducing well-established television discourse rules and principles in political communication. Political communication refers to multiple discourse instances taking up various forms and exerting various functions. Political communication constitutes a genre in its own right, within which television plays a key role in acting as a filter between reality and the audience. The orthographic transcription method was applied to both corpora, with the aim of achieving maximum compatibility for data sharing and user-readability. The symbolic elements are present in Coronation speeches, through which political discourse both complements and enhances the ceremonial dimension of such media events.
