INVESTIGADORES
MARCHESE Mariana Carolina
artículos
Título:
The discourse construction of the most affected subjects by the housing problem in Buenos Aires city: critical analysis from Converging Linguistic Approaches Method
Autor/es:
MARCHESE, MARIANA CAROLINA
Revista:
Critical Discourse Studies
Editorial:
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Referencias:
Lugar: Abingdon-on-Thames; Año: 2019 vol. 17 p. 91 - 110
ISSN:
1740-5904
Resumen:
The paper discusses the housing crisis in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, a phenomenon that particularly affects the socioeconomically vulnerable. The paradigm adopted is the interpretative, with Critical Discourse Analysis as a theoretical framework and qualitative methodology. The Converging Linguistic Approaches Method is adopted. By studying a corpus of relevant legal texts, this paper explores the way in which the poor are constructed as subjects in City Law No. 3706, the only text where they feature as a dominant focus category. To that end we need to deepen our understanding of the way in which the linguistic and discursive category of the poor as actors/subjects is constructed in the text. This paper also aims to show the ways in which linguistic discourse enquiry may use a qualitative analysis tool to shed light on social issues.