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This research study analyzes, from a qualitative point of view, the manner in wich three national newspapers--El Mercurio, La Nación and El Mostrador--build the evaluation representation on the subject of gender discrimination within the context of the zamudio case and the Antidiscrimination Law, in light of the Appraisal Theory (White 2004; Martin 2005; Martin y White 2005; Martin y Rose 2007; Hood 2010; Kaplan 2004; Oteíza 2006; Oteíza and Merino 2012). To that effect, three stories on the attack on Daniel zamudio were analyzed, primarily focusing on the manner in which the identity of a non-gay us, against this sexual orientation, is presented as opposed to a gay or gay-supporting them. The findings of this research account for the relevance of evaluations in the Chilean press. El Mercurio is confirmed as a conservative newspaper that aims at a high socio-cultural level, concerned with the decisions that regulate life in society. La Nación, in turn, establishes itself as the government channel, evaluating the actions of the current government and those of the former. Finally, El Mostrador positions itself as a more combatant medium, where the discussion among different social actors that belong to this newspaper is transmitted without censorship. Consequently, the discourse of the mass media constitutes a social practice whose power is generally symbolic and persuasive, where a variety of resources belonging to the semantic systems analyzed is displayed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research study aims at accounting for gender differences in the use of narrative patterns (Reyes 1996) by young adult subjects from Santiago of Chile when narrating their personal experiences. The main objective was to identify such differences and establish their frequency of occurrence in the development of the narrations. After analyzing 64 narratives, we concluded that there were practically no differences in the subjects' use of narrative patterns. However, an unexpected preference was found for the use of the standard narrative pattern by the subjects representing the lower levels of the social scale: the frequency of occurrence of such pattern in their narratives was higher than that found the other levels. On the basis of these results, we propose an initial explanation of such difference through the concept of "primary orality". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]