Publications

Publication details [#61617]

Soich, Matías. 2016. The collective need to be inside, the individual spectacle of the outer: Critical Discourse Analysis of the construction of discursive representations about transvestites on Argentinean television. Discourse & Society 27 (2) : 215–238.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | discourse strategy | gender | prejudice | television

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

In some Argentinean television programmes (1993-2010), two contrasting linguistic strategies concerning crossdresser State abuse, social exclusion and human rights struggle, cause a ‘postmodern’ status quo: partaking travestis enhance the stated aspects, while presenters consistently temper them.