The disappearance of 43 teacher-trainees in Mexico: An approach to critical discourse analysis in the press

• Published in: Revista Colombiana de ciencias sociales Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 334 - 371
• Main Authors: Carolina Robledo-Silvestre, Eva Patricia Velásquez-Upegui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad Católica Luis Amigó 01-07-2017
• Subjects: Derechos Humanos; Discurso; Prensa; Violencia
• ISSN: 2216-1201
• DOI: 10.21501/22161201.2199

A critical analysis of the press discourse in the covering of the disappearance of 43 young students in Guerrero (México) in September 2014 is suggested. For that purpose, the corpus of 2107 journalistic documents was explored over a period of three months, following the newspapers Reforma and La Jornada; the purpose of this exploration was to identify the discourse strategies used in the press to report on the fact, from the lexical frequency and the nominal phrasing occurrence. Four strategies were specifically identified: negation, and neutralization, which are used to hide the State responsibility in the violent acts and the historization and accreditation as part of the dissident discourse.  All of the strategies are oriented to the dispute of the lexical fields that give sense to the forced disappearance and the violation of human rights. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales.