Abstract

ESCUDERO CHAUVEL, Lucrecia. Missing, passions and discourse identities in the argentine press. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2001, n.17, pp.541-558. ISSN 1668-8104.

The treatment Argentine press gave the "missing" topic during the military dictatorships was extremely complex. The appearance of the missing topic in the social agenda and their truth conditions confronted the fictional construction of society that the military discourse did as well. Could military men be mentioned, what discourse identity could the press use when mentioning them? Considering the ordinary reader, the citizen, who had a direct experience, not influenced by the medice about the situation. This struggle for the definition and content of a word, for the identity of the unprecedented social actor in the national history, generated a crisis violently utterance forms were in violent crisis, and also the pattern of the information discourse. Summing up, the missing case can be considered as a true "discourse devise" because it is closely linked to military power, as the media bewer acting as visibility operators and with relatives power to reject aleny and finally change the current utterance.

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