| Description |
1 online resource (x, 246 pages) |
| Series |
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture ; v. 29 |
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Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 29.
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| Contents |
What We Remember; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The construction of memory; Constructing memory through discursive practices; The construction of accounts of the dictatorship period (1976 & 1978); Analysis of editorials of a military magazine, El Soldado (1986-1996); Individual memory; Struggles for memory; What is our story; Conclusion; References; Corpus of texts analyzed; Appendix; Appendix 2 |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary monograph explores the discursive manifestations of the conflict over how to remember and interpret the actions of the military during the last dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985). Through the exploration of the discursive ways in which this powerful group represents past events and participants, we can trace the ideological struggle over how to reconstruct a traumatic past. By looking at memory as a social and discursive practice, the analysis identifies particular semiotic practices and linguistic patterns deployed in the construction of memory. The discursive descript |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects
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Memory.
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Soldiers -- Uruguay -- Language
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REFERENCE.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects
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Memory
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Soldiers -- Language
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Uruguay
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027289957 |
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9027289956 |
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1282104470 |
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9781282104471 |
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9786612104473 |
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6612104473 |
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