What We Remember: The construction of memory in military discourse
Mariana Achugar
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 29] 2008. x, 246 pp.
Mariana Achugar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mariana Achugar plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2009 Power and place: Language attitudes towards Spanish in a bilingual academic community in Southwest Texas Spanish in Context 6:2, pp. 199–223 | Article
This paper explores the role of Spanish in an academic community in Southwest Texas in order to demonstrate how power, history and place affect linguistic attitudes. The changing status of Spanish from being an index of low wage paying jobs to being a marker of membership in an exclusive academic… read more
2008 Counter-hegemonic language practices and ideologies: Creating a new space and value for Spanish in Southwest Texas Spanish in Context 5:1, pp. 1–19 | Article
This article examines how local norms for Spanish use in a multilingual Southwest Texas border setting respond to and contest dominant monolingual ideologies. The analysis focuses on notions of what languages are legitimate for use in the public sphere in this community and on the benefits of… read more
2001 Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures Pragmatics 11:2, pp. 127–137 | Article
This paper analyzes the piropo in Spanish discourse as a speech event and as cognitive metaphor. This form of indirect speech act represents a Spanish discourse tradition that is still present in today’s discourse practices of Spanish-speaking cultures. These piropos are seen as reflections in… read more