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The circulation of strategies that aim to dismantle the effects of patriarchy in language has given rise to discussions around the legitimacy of non-sexist uses of language, awakening the interest of different social actors including language institutions such as the Royal Spanish Academy and the Chilean Academy of Language. From the glottopolitical perspective, the objective of this study is to analyze the linguistic ideologies that underlie the interventions that form part of a cycle of conferences organized by the Chilean Academy of Language. The corpus was analyzed under the theoretical and methodological guidelines of the French school of Discourse Analysis. The results show that the linguistic ideologies underlying the interventions are anchored on a heteronormative and patriarchal ideological system, in which the Chilean Academy of Language seeks to legitimize itself: on the one hand, through the construction of a progressive self-image, and, on the other, from their role as experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article identifies the discursive strategy of "extreme or radical" leaderships. With that in mind, it inquires the discursive content of Javier Milei's campaign closings before the Open Simultaneous and Obligatory Primaries (PASO) and the general elections, celebrated between August and October 2023 in Argentina, from a sociosemiotic perspective. The study concludes that Javier Milei's leadership generated attraction and adherence by a "rhetoric of rejection" towards "the political caste" during the first closing and by a "hyperbolic rhetoric", as the "resurrection or illumination" of the hero was witnessed, during the second campaign closing. In this manner, it advances in the knowledge of a case that, because of its novelty, remains little explored and delineates possible investigation agendas around leaderships and democratic quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A snapshot of communication research in Spain that uses qualitative methods as the dominant methodological perspective is presented. We conduct a content analysis to study the characteristics, objects and techniques that predominate in a census of 1,025 scientific productions from 2007 to 2018, which includes doctoral theses, projects and articles published in scientific journals. In the indexed publications, there is a certain lack of qualitative articles, despite the importance they have in doctoral theses and research projects. These researches use or triangulate qualitative methods, but not all techniques are used equally. Communication studies frequently resort to discourse analysis and in-depth interviews, but the presence of observations and discussion groups is minimal. The objects of study are also varied, although audiovisual formats prevail over journalistic formats and there is a growing interest in digital media and formats. Finally, at the author level, the results reveal parity, although the gender gap in the highest level studies is worrying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective/context: The study aimed to analyze the debate among Brazilian women senators during the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Methodology: Elements of discourse analysis were applied to investigate the main question: How did the debate develop among women senators, considering the ideological spectrum of the party and their position on the impediment (favorable or contrary)? The analysis presents a political-ideological profile of women senators, the arguments used by them in the debate, and the different uses of the defense of democracy. Conclusions: The left-wing women senators were more diligent and repeated their arguments more frequently to increase their discursive visibility. They also addressed the non-existence of a crime of responsibility, a condition to initiate an impeachment process. Women senators from the right and the center, on the other hand, resorted to rhetorical models to reiterate that the then-president of the Republic was no longer in a position to maintain a parliamentary base to support her government. The senators of this group also stated that the investigations demonstrated the use of schemes to irresponsibly disguise public accounts, exclusively with a view to Rousseff's reelection. Originality: It is relevant to highlight the original fact that this is an analysis of the impediment of a woman in the office of President of the Republic from the female perspective of the parliamentary body of the Senate, the institution in charge of judging the impeachment process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the positionings and discursive struggles between the key political actors around the expropriation project of Vicentin conglomerate, during the government of Alberto Fernández. As a result of the research work, we found an intense hegemonic struggle around the project. On the one hand, we found a package of discourses that expressed itself in favor of the measure and was condensed in the defense of food sovereignty, the rescue of a strategic company to control prices in the domestic market, regulate the foreign exchange and avoid abrupt devaluations, preserve jobs and guarantee payment to their creditors. In addition, it affirmed that it was an exceptional measure, stressed that Vicentin was bankrupt and accused of fraudulent maneuvers. On the other, we found a discursive package contrary to the project, which invoked as arguments the unconstitutionality of the measure and its negative effects on legal certainty and confidence necessary to attract investment. In addition, it maintained that all Argentines were going to take over the debt of a private company, classified the defense of food sovereignty as an 'excuse' or considered that Argentina was on the way to a 'chavista' model. Finally, we address the hegemonic impact at the institutional and social level, which generated social protests and a judicialization of politics and ended in the blocking of the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Recent debates concerning problems in the digital environment have promoted different conceptualizations of digital rights. However, current problems of digital communication are often discussed separately from earlier debates pertaining to the democratization of the media. This article argues for the regrounding of digital rights debates to address systemic communication problems. Methodology: Intended as a conceptual contribution, this article connects recent critical research on digital rights to the body of literature on democratic media activism through an analysis of problem representations. The article draws on the “What is the problem represented to be?” approach to study problem representations in the academic accounts of mobilizations and to identify common themes that describe systemic problems of communication. Results: The results identify problem representations that have emerged in and been defined by mobilizations over time and illustrate persistent themes with examples from the digital and mass media eras, including inequalities in the distribution of communicative resources, ownership and economic model of the communication system, and problems of participation and exclusion. Discussion: Focusing on problem representations enables identification of alternatives to current dominant discourses and offers grounds for collaboration at the nexus of activism and scholarship. Conclusions: Future research can benefit from a further dialogue between the framework of democratic media activism and rights-based approaches to the digital communication environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on a doctoral research work. Its purpose is to act as a critical operator that seeks to show, through discourse analysis, the main lines of crossing, dispersion, and mutation created around the concept of adolescence in the psychoanalytic device in order to point out some epistemic, political, and clinical implications underlying the configuration of certain forms of subjectivity propitiated by such concept. As a result of this analysis, an alternate line of thought is outlined in which subject and event become the conceptual axes that allow us to reposition the adolescent issue in terms of that other order that puberty seems to designate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a protocol for the analysis of mitigation is presented. Using the latest theoretic and methodological research on mitigation as well as the distinction of neighboring phenomena such as intensification and affiliation, we offer guidelines for the study of mitigation. This tool enables analysts to discern whether an item performs a mitigating function, as well as to carry out a complete analysis of how mitigation is deployed in each given context. After presenting the protocol, its application in different discursive genres and geographical varieties of Spanish is shown, thus proving that this scheme is a useful resource for the study of mitigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on research conducted by Croker (2019) and Herr (2020), in this article we present a proposed analysis of a discourse approach to the emergence and use of the term "cloud computing" and its derivative "saving in the cloud". The study is supported by three concepts covered by the epistemological field of French Discourse Analysis: 1) the will to truth (Foucault, 1999); 2) the interdiscourse (Maingueneau, 2008); and 3) the sociodiscursive imaginaries (Charaudeau, 2017). We proceeded to the discourse analysis of an advertising piece, a Brazilian TV news report about the emergence of cloud computing, and a cartoon focused on the same theme. The results show that the metaphor of the cloud as a place of lightness and superiority, referring to the idea of heaven and paradise, camouflages the reality of cloud computing as a private repository allocated in robust computer infrastructures that increasingly cause dependence and obtain information from users for use in various profitable actions for large technology companies in their virtual environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]