Semantic and rhetorical structures mobilized in the discourse of the “Minga of social and community resistance”

• Main Author: William Bermeo Dagua
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad del Valle 2019-11-01
• Series: Lenguaje
• Subjects: political resistance discourse;ideological beliefs;ideological attitudes;semantic structures;rhetoricalstructures.
• Online Access: http://revistalenguaje.univalle.edu.co/index.php/lenguaje/article/view/7198/11388

This article presents the results of a research directed towards the discourse analysis of the Colombian social mobilization known as Social and Community Resistance “Minga”. Because this discourse mobilizes aresistanceideology, this paper identifies and explains the rhetoric and semantic discursive structures used to bring to light the general strategy of a “positive self-presentation” and “the negative presentation of other people”, a characteristic of every ideological discourse. This qualitative and exploratory study analyzed a sample of 41 written texts, using the latest version of the content analysis technique. The obtained results showed that the most used semantic structures were the lexical selection, the themes, and the description level; and that the rhetoricalstructures, metaphors and hyperboles acted mainly as semantic and cognitive mechanisms. As a conclusion, this study validated the presence of that general strategy in this type of discourse.