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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.