Urban wall monologues: a critical discourse analysis of graffiti in Granada Aguilera Carnerero, María Del Carmen Graffiti emerge in the cities as powerful tools of communication but also as a spontaneous expression of social criticism. Their complex polyhedral nature has been studied from multiple angles ranging from Sociology, Urban Planning, Criminology, Linguistics or Art Criticism but few studies have adopted a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, paying special attention to the fuzziness of its communicative nature. The present chapter analyses a corpus of 187 graffiti located in Granada, compiled between 2017 and 2018. Specifically, the study of graffiti unveiled the anti-hegemonic discourse of minority sectors of society who used the city walls to visibilize their voices as well as to claim their predominant role as social actors. 2025-01-27T10:59:14Z 2025-01-27T10:59:14Z 2019-12-17 book part https://hdl.handle.net/10481/100506 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27573-0_5 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ embargoed access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Palgrave Macmillan