Reported Speech and Ideological Positions: The Social Distribution of Knowledge and Power in Media Discourse

DVOSKIN, GABRIEL

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso

Universidad Católica de San Pablo

Lugar: San Pablo; Año: 2020 vol. 15 p. 193 - 216

2176-4573

The aim of this article is to analyze the representations in circulation about the social actors that participated in the education-related conflict which took place in Buenos Aires, in September of 2017. We analyze the positions adopted by two of the main newspapers in Argentina, La Nación and Página/12. In order to perform this analysis, we consider reported speech as a discursive mechanism employed by newspapers to establish the ideological framework within which they inscribe the topics they address. Thus, reported speech constitutes a privileged resource to analyze the ideological positionings taken up by these newspapers. We aim at contributing to the analysis of reported speech as a mechanism that regulates which interpretations are possible for a given text through the hierarchization and legitimization of the different voices and stances that a newspaper incorporates.