1. Intervención semiótica en el espacio público: la Marcha de las Piedras (Buenos Aires, 2021) y su inscripción en las discursividades pandémicas.
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Narvaja de Arnoux, Elvira
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COVID-19 pandemic , *SOCIAL processes , *PUBLIC demonstrations , *PUBLIC institutions , *EMOTIONS - Abstract
Covid-19 pandemic generated various discourses which slipped easily from sanitarian issues to political ones. Responses to the unexpected and disturbing worldwide phenomenon had to deal with previous genre and rhetorical matrixes and to venture into discursive materialities which exceed verbal field. This is what happened in the Demonstration of the Stones organised in Buenos Aires, August 2021, to hommage the people who had died without relatives’ and friends’ company due to quarantine official measures. Since the beginning, this march had a political meaning not only from the way it was called but also because of the places chosen to deposit the stones inscribed with the deads’ names. Our analysis takes a glottopolitical perspective which studies the semiotic dimension of social processes practised in political fields. In this paper we consider the development of pandemic discursivities (and the speeches following the protest) as inscriptions in a social disciplining process that fades disruptiveness and standardises practices. First we’ll refer to discursivities on pandemic and summarise antiquarantine demonstrations. Then we are analysing the protest call and meaningful aspects of its realization. In the third section, we will address the “profanation” or “vandalization” figures as much as the ultimate memorial image held by state institutions. Finally, we will concentrate on memories and emotions that broke out then. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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