Negar la crisis: el discurso del gobierno español en los albores de la Gran Recesión y el COVID-19

Denying the crisis: the Spanish government’s discourse at the beginning of the Great Recession and COVID-19 This article proposes the analysis of the discursive strategies of Spanish governments during the initial period of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic, through the linguistic application of the Kübler-Ross stage model, which in both cases configures their denial phase. For this purpose, the euphemisms present in two corpora will be studied from a pragmalinguistic perspective and a synchronic and diachronic scope. On these bases, common elements are established in the attenuation, which will constitute the basis of an ephemeral success, before the manifestation of the harsh effects of the crises.