Refracción 2024, n. 9

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    Análisis crítico del discurso de la literatura desplazada : un primer acercamiento.
    (Instituto de Lingüística Materialista., 2024) Hellín Nistal, Lucía
    In this article we investigate the role of literature written by migrant or displaced authors in the social debate and the ideological struggle around issues such as displacement, marked by class and gender. With this aim, we will adapt van Dijk's interdisciplinary proposal of "critical discourse analysis" to the study of literary discourse. We will examine the concept of ideology, we will observe some distinctive features of literature as a particular discursive space, we will put in dialogue tools of critical discourse analysis with those elaborated from rhetoric and literary theory, and we will exemplify this development with some references from the displaced literature. In this way, we will verify the contribution that the literature of displacement can make to the study of discourses on migration, with a perspective of denunciation, memory and vindication that is normally muffled in the dominant discourse.
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    Colonialismo, especismo y ecocrítica en el análisis del discurso latinoamericano. Notas sobre la hegemonía humana y el cambio de paradigma.
    (Instituto de Lingüística Materialista., 2024) Forte, Diego L.
    Discourse studies in Latin America present a strong colonial bias in which the use of foreign theories applied to local corpora prevails (Resende, 2019). But not only are theoretical approaches a characteristic of Latin American coloniality, also the topics addressed in the construction of local corpora present an important limitation that is not so obvious at first glance (Forte, 2023). The average object of study is made up of social problems that are mostly extracted from the local media agenda and, therefore, are already enshrined in the public sphere as topics to be debated. In this way, analysed discourses are proposed by the media and not by analysts, which is why topics with ecological and animal perspectives encounter serious difficulties in entering the discussion even though they represent current and relevant problems due to the ethical discussions that are taking place in the West and the effects of climate change that are already being felt throughout the region and the world. Considering this context, this work aims to present a deconstruction of the coloniality of discursive studies in Latin America from an ecolinguistic perspective (Stibbe, 2021) and propose a new approach that enables a critical look at human hegemony with respect to other species (Despret, 2022; Meijer, 2022) considering a reworking of Marx's concept of social class (Duek & Inda, 2007; Hribal, 2014). We start from the idea that non-human species, included within the terms “animal” and “nature”, represent an “other” systematically erased from critical human social discourses but present in their own non-human discourses.
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    Descifrando el rompecabezas : sistemas, modos, recursos y medios en la multimodalidad.
    (Instituto de Lingüística Materialista., 2024) Londoño Zapata, Oscar Iván
    This article addresses the systems, modes, resources, and media in the field of multimodality. Its main purpose is to contribute to the understanding of the relationships and differences established among those notions. To achieve this goal, the text follows a structure consisting of two parts. First, a theoretical exploration of each of the above-mentioned concepts is conducted. Second, an example is presented, focusing on the figure as a semiotic resource of the iconic mode. Consequently, it is expected that interested readers, especially those embarking on their research in this field, can grasp the relations among those notions while simultaneously exploring different analytical approaches for studying multisignificant texts.
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    La marcha de los siglos : R. O. Shor y V. N. Volóshinov, dos enfoques de la lingüística de la Ilustración.
    (Instituto de Lingüística Materialista., 2024) Sériot, Patrick
    The philosophy of language of the Age of Enlightenment gave rise to divergent approaches in Soviet linguistics in the 1920s and 1930s. It is the problem of the sign, the social, and the relationship between language and thought. A comparison between two key figures of this period, R.O. Šor and V.N. Vološinov, highlights two antithetical ways of defining the object of social linguistics: either the sign is the condition of the social as supra-individual, or, on the contrary, it is what prevents any consideration of the social as inter-individual.