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This paper studies the arguments and mobilization strategies used by the pro-life movement in Argentina on Instagram during the debates about the legalization of abortion in 2018. To analyse these strategies, we compiled a corpus, which includes the images published over eleven months by the two accounts of the pro-life associations with most followers on Instagram. The analysis combines two methods: visual content analysis and multimodal critical discourse analysis. Results show that these accounts used different mobilization repertoires (Unidad provida aimed at mobilizing the supporters even at a local level, while Unidos por las dos vidas wanted to persuade the followers, impact them, and stigmatize women). Nevertheless, both accounts converged in the use of the historical argumentation and persuasion strategies of the anti-abortion movement in Argentina, adapting them to the specific affordances of Instagram, without substantially modifying their content. In addition, on occasions, they also constructed visual and textual counterarguments opposed to those of the pro-choice movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Argentina, food and nutrition diseases are complex social problems that cover a wide range, from malnutrition deaths in a food producer country, to bulimia and anorexia in middle-class youth, among other issues like the increase in cases of diabetes and heart disease linked to the non-stopping growth of obesity. These problems mentioned are related to urgent situations, that even though rises from different social and economic contexts, the State should provide an answer. Obesity has become a central issue for the public agenda since excess weight has ceased to be the healthy signal of physical and economic well-being to become a disease, which must be fought by all means. Different programs have been carried out by the State to control and prevent it, with the collaboration of private sectors, including specialized medical centers. They propose different medical approaches, with their theoretical assumptions and therapeutic approaches, which are fundamental, because they are performative, both on disease control, as to the subjectivity, practices and lifestyles of the patient. In this paper we will analyze the discourse of the support groups for the therapies of obesity of patients in undergoing treatment. We will address the interactions in groups, managed by the participants themselves through the mobile networks, which set the determining weight of the medical assumptions about their identities, behaviors and attitudes. Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1995, 2003, 2006), from a multimodal perspective (Kress, 2010) and qualitative (Guba and Lincoln, 1994) is the theoretical and methodological framework of this paper. [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]

This paper aims to explore, from the perspectives of Critical Analysis Discourse (CDA) and Theories of Enunciation (TE), the verbal register used by the social agent national government in the statement "Argentina, a country with good people". In this enunciation the national state discourse is built as a re-humanized speaker speaking to a good-citizen hearer. We tried to find the clearest trace of the author in discourse. For this, we focus on trying to understand how the national state is able to generate a truth status of new subjectivities by using the communication contract we discuss in this work. So, on one hand, we studied the characteristics of the communication contract: "Argentina, a country of good people" which is circulating in the mass media as "propaganda". In this article this concept is used as "institutional state discourse". On the other hand, we tried to determine how circulation networks, meaning configurations and movements operate by using this enunciation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]