Pandemics and nonhuman animals in the argentine press: extended carnism and industrial fatalism
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COVID-19; Non-human animals; Discourse; Ecolinguistics.Abstract
The present work is part of a research dedicated to the construction of the carnist discursive identity in Argentina. Our aim in this paper is to analyse the way in which Argentine press constructs non-human animals during COVID-19 pandemic in the news. We will analyse three different news taken from two major newspapers from Buenos Aires with national editions.
We’ll adopt as main theoretical framework Ecolinguistics as proposed by STIBBE (2012, 2014). From this perspective, neoclassical economics discourse builds a destructive relationship between humans and non-humans through language. We will apply theoretical tools provided by HODGE & KRESS (1993) for verbal analysis, and KRESS & VAN LEEUWEN (2006) and HART (2014) for image analysis.
Our working hypothesis is that just three positions are allowed to non-human animals in these papers: suppression, backgrounding and ornamental presence (VAN LEEUWEN, 2008), granting non-human animals places of subalternity (SPIVAK, 1988).
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