Perros de Guerra: El discurso sobre las divisiones caninas del ejército argentino

Diego L.  Forte

Authors

Diego L. Forte

Keywords:

Guerra de Malvinas, animales no-humanos, especismo, ecolingüística.

Abstract

The present work derives from an investigation conducted by the National Library of Ar- gentina’s Research Department, as displayed at the exhibition Contar Malvinas. It aims to analyze two multimodal texts that feature the dogs involved in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands’ War. For this purpose, I adopt Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis’ theoreti- cal framework, focusing on processes and participants (Hodge & Kress, 1993), prototypes and frameworks (Lakoff, 1987), as well as image analysis (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006). Our starting hypothesis is that the epic/warlike discourse constructs animals based on human qualities while simultaneously mitigating human responsibility in tragic events involving nonhumans.

Author Biography

Diego L. Forte

Licenciado en Letras (Universidad de Buenos Aires), doctorando en Lingüística, Análisis del Discurso (Universidad de Buenos Aires).

Email: dforte@filo.uba.ar

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