| Description |
1 online resource (x, 246 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture ; v. 29
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Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 29.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and indexes. |
| Contents |
What We Remember; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The construction of memory; Constructing memory through discursive practices; The construction of accounts of the dictatorship period (1976 & 1978); Analysis of editorials of a military magazine, El Soldado (1986-1996); Individual memory; Struggles for memory; What is our story; Conclusion; References; Corpus of texts analyzed; Appendix; Appendix 2. |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary monograph explores the discursive manifestations of the conflict over how to remember and interpret the actions of the military during the last dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985). Through the exploration of the discursive ways in which this powerful group represents past events and participants, we can trace the ideological struggle over how to reconstruct a traumatic past. By looking at memory as a social and discursive practice, the analysis identifies particular semiotic practices and linguistic patterns deployed in the construction of memory. The discursive descript. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects.
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Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects. |
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Memory.
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Memory. |
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Soldiers -- Uruguay -- Language.
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Soldiers. |
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Uruguay. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Achugar, Mariana. What we remember. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 9789027206176 9027206171 (DLC) 2008028908 (OCoLC)233485169 |
| ISBN |
9789027289957 (electronic book) |
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9027289956 (electronic book) |
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1282104470 |
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9781282104471 |
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9789027206176 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027206171 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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