De los cuerpos al corpus. Una experiencia de investigación en torno al discurso zapatista y sus ecos en el mundo
In the process of analysis; it is the body which bears and anchors meaning; as a kind of base or ground. Without the ground (the empirical base); there is no (theoretical) flight; and vice versa. But this body is not a given; it has no a priori existence; just like discourse itself; rather; it is so...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ela.enallt.unam.mx:article/579 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ela.enallt.unam.mx/index.php/ela/article/view/579 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | corpus; Zapatism; meaning; discursive strategy; reading corpus; Zapatismo; significación; estrategia discursiva; lectura |
| Sumario: | In the process of analysis; it is the body which bears and anchors meaning; as a kind of base or ground. Without the ground (the empirical base); there is no (theoretical) flight; and vice versa. But this body is not a given; it has no a priori existence; just like discourse itself; rather; it is something we construct; creating from the many things or from everything around us a “something” that we can examine up close; detecting and discovering the traces of speech as a meaning-creating activity. In this article we present a methodological summary of an empirical experience; the analytical reading of the intense discursive production of the Zapatista guerrilla movement and its effects worldwide as a creator of meaning; that is; its reception by intellectual fora; movements and social actors; as well as in the press; both within Mexico and; above all; outside it. In the data collection process; but more importantly still in the construction of the corpus; our goal was to create a “reasoned order” among the most diverse variety of materials; genres and sources. This corpus; though closely and explicitly connected to the world at large; also represents its own fictive universe; shaped by the pre-established interests and knowledge of the person(s) constructing it. The selection and organization of materials first assembled on the basis of lexical and situational criteria was not merely a starting point but rather an integral part of the analysis; understanding the latter as moving carefully to and fro between text and context; close-ups and distance views; and macro and micro-levels of reading; alternating between panoramic scans (of newspaper headers; for instance) and close readings (of a single press release; for example). Although the article deals primarily with the conceptual and methodological premises of this reading/view; it also gives a brief summary of a couple of our findings; such as the interactive nature of neo-Zapatist discursive insurgency; and the way it opts for paradox as an anti-essentialist strategy. |
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