Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Concepts and Challenges

307 Pages·2018·3.839 MB·English

by  Eleonora Esposito

DISCOURSES
FROM
LATIN
AMERICA
AND THE
CARIBBEAN
Edited by
Eleonora Esposito,
Carolina Pérez-Arredondo,
José Manuel Ferreiro
Discourses from Latin America and the
Caribbean
“The editors and the publisher of this timely volume should be congratulated for
their initiative to introduce to the international community of discourse studies
these original contributions from Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin
America in particular, has been among the most active regions of discourse stud-
ies in the world, having established its first international association of discourse
studies as early as 1995. The transdisciplinary studies collected here offer unique
perspectives combining many types of discourse analysis, e.g., multimodal and
corpus linguistic approaches, with critical social and cultural analyses, e.g. of
democracy after dictatorships, slavery, poverty, (post)colonialism, national iden-
tity, (anti)racism, migration, peace processes, student movements, populism,
creolization and ethnic minority resistance, among many other relevant topics.
These contributions uniquely show how sophisticated analyses of text and talk
offer advanced qualitative methods, still largely ignored in the social sciences, for
the study of social issues.”
—Teun A. van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University and Centre of Discourse Studies,
Barcelona, Spain
Eleonora Esposito
Carolina Pérez-Arredondo
José Manuel Ferreiro
Editors
Discourses from Latin
America and the
Caribbean
Current Concepts and Challenges
Editors
Eleonora Esposito Carolina Pérez-Arredondo
Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) Language Department
University of Navarra Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins
Pamplona, Spain Santiago, Chile
José Manuel Ferreiro
Merlin Research
Santiago, Chile
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
Eleonora Esposito, Carolina Pérez-Arredondo, and José Manuel
Ferreiro
Part I Ethnic and Latin American Identities Construction in
Intercultural and Multinational Settings 31
2 Discursive Re-foundation of an Intercultural Abya Yala:
Morales’ Discourse in the Midst of Crisis and the Tradition
of Protest 33
Katharina Friederike Gallant
3 The Discursive Construction of a Latin American
Identity/ies in the UN Mission in Haiti (2004–2013) 69
José Manuel Ferreiro
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Part II Multimodal and Corpus-Assisted Approaches to
Hegemonic and Resistance Discourses in Latin
America 105
4 The Hooded Student as a Metaphor: Multimodal
Recontextualization of the Chilean Student Movement in
a Broadcast News Report 107
Carolina Pérez-Arredondo and Camila Cárdenas-Neira
5 The Zapatista Linguistic Revolution: A Corpus-Assisted
Analysis 139
Isabelle Gribomont
Part III Discourses of Slavery Reparation and Immigrant
Integration from the Caribbean and Latin America 173
6 The Social Media Campaign for Caribbean Reparations:
A Critical Multimodal Investigation 175
Eleonora Esposito
7 Towards Sociocultural Recognition and Integration of
Latin American Immigrants in Los Angeles Through the
Analysis of Social-Discursive Significations 211
Ricardo Medina Audelo
Part IV Integrated Approaches to Race and Gender in the
Caribbean 239
8 Remaking Jamaica: Tourism, Labour, and the Awakening
Jamaica Exhibition 241
Karen Wilkes
Conten ts vii
9 Being Said/Seen to Care: Masculine Silences and Emerging
Visibilities of Intimate Fatherhood in Dominica, Lesser
Antilles 267
Adom Philogene Heron
Index 299
Notes on Contributors
Camila Cárdenas-Neira is a PhD candidate in Translation and Language
Studies at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). During her MA in Communication
(Universidad Austral, Chile), she analysed the ideological representation of the
Chilean youth in historical and specialized discourses that reconstruct their
political actions in the recent past (1970–1990) (Cárdenas 2011, 2012, 2014a).
Currently, her investigation focuses on the representation of the student move-
ment on Facebook, from the multi-semiotic production of discourses, spaces
and practices of youth protests (Cárdenas 2014b, 2014c, 2014d, 2016, in press).
Eleonora  Esposito is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the
University of Navarra (Spain). She holds an MA in Cultural and Postcolonial
Studies (University of Naples L’Orientale, 2010) and a PhD/Doctor Europaeus
in English Linguistics (University of Naples Federico II, 2015). Her research
interests are in the field of Language, Politics, Gender and Society in the
European Union and in the Anglophone Caribbean, investigated in the light of
Critical Discourse Studies, Multimodal Studies and Translation Studies (Esposito
2015, 2017a, 2017b). Currently, she is exploring new theoretical perspectives
and integrated methodologies for the critical investigation of Social Media
Discourses (KhosraviNik and Esposito forthcoming).
José Manuel Ferreiro holds a PhD in Linguistics at Lancaster University
(England), where he has been associate lecturer in Discourse Analysis and
Corporate Communication. He is also head of Semantic/Discourse Analysis at
Merlin Research (Chile). Since his MA in Discourse Studies at Lancaster
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x Notes on Contributors
University, he has primarily researched the discursive construction of Latin
American identities and legitimation strategies in UN mission in Haiti from the
point of view of Critical Discourse Analysis (Ferreiro and Wodak 2014). He is
also interested in the media representations of Haiti (Vásquez and Ferreiro 2016)
and constituent processes in Chile (Coddou and Ferreiro 2016).
Katharina Friederike Gallant is a Cultural Anthropologist who holds a PhD
in Historical Ethnology from Frankfurt University and an MA in North
American Regional Studies from Bonn University. Her past research has been
concerned with issues of ethnic identity and interculturality, focusing on Bolivia,
the USA and the intergroup relations and collective victimhood. She currently
works at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), an institute of Bonn
University whose main objective is to find science-based solutions to develop-
ment-related issues.
Isabelle Gribomont is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Modern
Languages at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her research interests include
contemporary Mexican literature, digital humanities, decolonial thinking and
social movements. Her thesis focuses on the literary elements of the writings of
Subcomandante Marcos, spokesperson of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas,
Mexico. As of recently, she became interested in the use of computational meth-
ods to assist the semantic analysis of large quantities of text, ranging from key-
word and collocation analyses to machine learning techniques.
Ricardo Medina Audelo  is Lecturer and Researcher at Instituto Politécnico
Nacional SEPI-ESIA-T EC (Mexico). He has several publications on immigra-
tion, social imaginary, discourse analysis, identity, autobiographical memory
and collective memory. He investigates the role of discursive constructions of
identity and autobiographical storytelling in Latin American immigration in the
USA and Spain. His research also explores the idea of public space and spatial
exclusion of Central American immigrants in Mexico City.
Carolina Pérez-Arredondo is an Associate Lecturer at Universidad Bernardo
O’Higgins (Chile). During her MA in Discourse Studies at Lancaster
University (England), she analysed the discursive construction of the Chilean
student movement in the national press (Pérez 2012). She continued this work
during her PhD at the same institution, focusing on the linguistic construc-
tion of motive (purpose) of the same social movement in the national media
(Pérez 2016, 2017). She is also interested in the analysis of discriminatory
manifestations and practices in the Chilean context, especially in relation to
domestic work (Pérez 2014).
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Adom Philogene Heron is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths
College, University of London. His interests include kinship, masculinities,
affect, inter- generational relations, the body and the social lives of hurricanes.
His PhD (2017, Anthropology, St Andrews) explored the familial lives of men
in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean. As an extroverted twin to his PhD project, he
curates a blog on these themes—www.Fathermen.blogspot.com. Post-doctorally,
Adom is developing a project on Caribbean familial responses to hurricanes in
the age of anthropogenic climate change.
Karen Wilkes is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. Her
interdisciplinary research on visual texts explores the formation and representa-
tion of gender, class, sexuality and race in historical and contemporary visual
culture, and her book Whiteness, Weddings and Tourism in the Caribbean: Paradise
for Sale was published in September 2016. She has also published chapters and
articles including ‘From the Landscape to the White Female Body’ (2013),
‘Whiteness and Postcolonial Luxury’ (2014) and ‘Colluding with Neoliberalism:
post-feminist subjectivities, whiteness and expressions of entitlement’ (Feminist
Review July 2015).