Expressivist Semantics and Statatactivism in the Media Construction of Workplace Accidents: A Proposal for Analysis Based on Critical Exoinmanentism and the Political Sociology of Quantification
Abstract
Two key strategies employed to ensure the persuasiveness of journalistic discourse are the selection of sources that appeal to emotions and the use of statistical data. This study examines a corpus of news reports on workplace accidents through an analytical framework that integrates the concept of critical exoimmanence (Gonzalo Abril) and the political sociology of systematized quantification (Alan Desrosières). The analysis enables a mapping of journalistic production concerning the argumentative strategies devised by social agents and political actors. Furthermore, the study explores the self-referential and hetero-referential functions of emotional discourse. These semiotic forms and practices contributed to the normalization of workplace accidents.
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