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The objective of this paper is to present a way of approaching the study of discourses from the interpretative paradigm, based on the ACD in its Latin American side as a theoretical framework and applying a predominantly qualitative and inductive methodology. This is the Method of Converging Linguistic Approaches for CDA. This method deepens the analysis of texts (written or oral) as sociodiscursive units and their purpose is to reflect on social phenomena and problems from data obtained in linguistic-discursive analysis. In this case, from the analysis of digital comments derived from a piece of news referring to the housing problem of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, it is illustrated how the method enables to study, first, the discursive categorization and, second, the focused categories including the most predominant ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the ideological basis and argumentative strategies given by four Spanish newspaper editorials to a controversial religious event: Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in 2010. A hybrid method of Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics is used to analyse the editorials: the former, explores macro-structural aspects of the argumentive strategy (Amossy, 2006, 2009) particularly the editorial's framing (Entman, 1993), while the latter, the microstructural aspects of textual cohesion (Halliday & Hasan, 1989). A marked ideological polarisation between El País and ABC, and a less partisan and clear-cut approach in La Vanguardia and El Periódico that offers differing interpretations have been observed in the treatment of papal visit and Catholic religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the visual representation of student’s protests raised in Chile during 2011. The purpose is to describe the actors and symbolized group identities, as well as the social actions and the ways in which these specific actions are legitimized or delegitimized in the interaction. The corpus is a photographic book entitled Marchas (Marches) (Yutronic & Ortiz, 2012), which is analyzed from a theoretical and methodological framework that considers input from Critical Discourse Studies and Social Semiotics. The paper claims that the photographs of marches are able to organize narrative meanings which structure opposite forms of performance and political identification, excluding other critical participants in the educational conflict, such as political and economic elites. Thus, it is constructed a type of confrontation between young people and police, which simplifies the ideological struggle and reinforces stereotypes about groups whose action, being subject to constant media coverage, is, therefore, cognitively enhanced. The paper concludes that the narration inquired is an option of representation that emphasizes the historical character of the students’ protest, providing in this way a space that makes visible the postdictatorial action of youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many of Buenos Aires City's inhabitants undergo serious housing difficulties. During the 21st century these difficulties have become more and more complex, to the point that the City's Legislature has systematically extended the state of housing emergency. In this context, the aim of this paper is to explain the deep causes and the social consequences involved in the housing issue, as it has a strong symbolic impact on the identities of those who undergo it. The theoretical frame for this work is Critical Discourse Analysis, its methodology is qualitative and the corpus consists of life histories and City's Government speeches on the so-called "housing issue". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]