The representation of oneself in political-narrative discourses: from <i>lambda</i> to <i>ethos</i>

<p class="p1">In this article we analyze, from a polyphonic and non-referential perspective of enunciation (Ducrot 1984), a set of political-narrative discourses, that is, micronarration where the political speaker talks about himself in the recent past. In those discourses, we inqui...

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Main Author: Ana Soledad Montero
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Buenos Aires 2018-02-01
Series:Signo y Seña
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Online Access:http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/sys/article/view/4115
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Summary:<p class="p1">In this article we analyze, from a polyphonic and non-referential perspective of enunciation (Ducrot 1984), a set of political-narrative discourses, that is, micronarration where the political speaker talks about himself in the recent past. In those discourses, we inquire the way in which the speaker represents himself in his narrative and the link of that representation with the “prior <em>ethos</em>”. Based on the idea that Kirchner projects a “militant <em>ethos</em>” and Mujica presents an “old wise man” one, we are interested in examining how those images of self are elaborated from their narrative self-representation. To this end, we investigate the possible links between the analytical<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>categories of speaker, lambda, stated <em>ethos </em>and prior <em>ethos </em>(Amossy 2010), and propose the notion of narrated <em>lambda </em>(<span class="s1">λ</span><span class="s2">N</span>) to address the emergence of the subject of statement in these political-narrative discourses. Within that framework, we identify two distinctive scenographies (Maingueneau 1999), the testimonial and the memorial one, which demarcate and overdeterminate the constitution of subjectivity in these political discourses.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
ISSN:2314-2189