"Ensuring today and for all times, democracy and respect for human dignity in Argentina": Alfonsín & democracy

MAGNANEGO, FLORENCIA; DAGATTI, MARIANO

African Yearbook or Rhetoric

AfricaRhetoric Publishing

Lugar: Ciudad del Cabo; Año: 2015 vol. 6 p. 63 - 66

In Raul Alfonsin?s speech of 10 December, 1983, there is a constitution of the people as a citizen and the (re) establishment of democracy after the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983. The construction of the audience is articulated with an ethos of humility: Alfonsin represents himself as ?the most humble of Argentines? and as representative of the citizens. We analize how he refer to the situation of enunciation with the metaphor-cliché of the ?celebration? in relation to democracy (?the celebration of Argentine democracy? and how in Alfonsin?s address, democracy starts in liberal political representation.