Bullfighting report: The Rhetorical Ethos of Vicente Zabala and Joaquín Vidal

Abstract

This report is based on the doctoral thesis “J. M. Arroyo Joselito. Análisis de sus actuaciones en la plaza de Las Ventas: las crónicas de ABC y El País”. The starting point is the hypothesis in which the ethos or author’s rhetorical character represents the different parts that form such a special journalistic genre, the bullfighting report. That hypothesis has been proved by several analytical studies about the reports written by Vicente Zabala (ABC) and Joaquín Vidal (El País), two master bullfighting journalists at the end XXth century. To delimit the subject of the research, the thesis focuses on the reports that both writers have published about José Miguel Arroyo Joselito, one of the most distinguished bullfighters in the last two decades of the XXth century, in the same bullring, Las Ventas in Madrid.