Hide the subject as a resource to represent reality in the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of the clause: the case of Pablo Escobar in "Semana" magazine
Abstract
The media, which are symbolic broadcast sites (Raiter, 2001), choose the language resources that determine the "meaning’s potential" (Gil and García, 2010) of the messages they share with their audiences. In doing so, they presents versions of "reality" according to their intentions and particular ways of seeing the world. This article presents the results of a discourse’s analysis in which is noticed the linguistic resources used by Semana magazine to hide and represent the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar during certain processes associated with the drug war in Colombia.The analysis is focused on the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of 39 reportage’s headlines published by the magazine during that time being.
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