A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF EVO MORALES AND JUAN PERÓN A comparative study Kandidatspeciale Cand. ling. merc. – spansk og amerikanske studier Martin Kristensen Tyge Rud Larsen Vejleder: Nanna Hansen Date for aflevering: 6. oktober 2014 Anslag/normalsider: 168.251/74 Copenhagen Business School 2014 Table of contents Resumé .............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Problem statement ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Chapter overview .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Referential framework .................................................................................................................................. 6 Empirical data ................................................................................................................................................ 7 Scientific theoretical considerations ............................................................................................................. 9 Our role as researches ............................................................................................................................. 11 Theory .............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Discourse ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Effects of discourse .................................................................................................................................. 13 Identity ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 The three-dimensional model ..................................................................................................................... 16 Text dimension ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Discursive practice-dimension ................................................................................................................. 17 Interdiscursivity ................................................................................................................................... 18 Social practice-dimension ........................................................................................................................ 19 Method ............................................................................................................................................................ 20 Delimitations ............................................................................................................................................... 21 Analysis ............................................................................................................................................................ 22 Discursive practice ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Morales .................................................................................................................................................... 23 Perón ....................................................................................................................................................... 29 Text .............................................................................................................................................................. 35 Morales .................................................................................................................................................... 35 Perón ....................................................................................................................................................... 44 Social practice .............................................................................................................................................. 51 Morales .................................................................................................................................................... 51 Perón ....................................................................................................................................................... 57 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................................... 63 List of sources .................................................................................................................................................. 68 Side 1 af 70 Resumé Formålet med denne kandidatafhandling er at foretage en kritisk diskursanalyse af to sydamerikanske præsidenters taler med henblik på en komparativ analyse. Afhandlingen vil behandle Evo Morales’ og Juan Peróns diskurser ved hjælp af den britiske lingvist Norman Faircloughs model for kritisk diskursanalyse for med et lingvistisk udgangspunkt at sammenligne de to cases. Faircloughs kritiske diskursanalyse antager et dialektisk forhold imellem sprog og samfund og vedrører især hvordan diskurser konstrueres af og selv medvirker til at konstruere sociale identiteter og relationer i en kontekst af sociale omvæltninger, så opgavens fokus ligger på sproglige virkemidler i forbindelse med diskursiv forandring i et dialektisk sammenspil med social forandring. Vores valg af metode styrer vores fokus i den forstand, at Faircloughs videnskabsteoretiske antagelser bevirker, at diskursanalysen deles op i en behandling af diskursernes tre dimensioner: den tekstuelle, som tager udgangspunkt i en række lingvistiske redskaber såsom transitivitet og brugen af pronominer, den diskursive praksis, der især omhandler artikulationen af forskellige konventionelle eller innovative diskurstyper, der tilsammen skaber en diskursiv blanding med forskellige konsekvenser for skabelsen af identiteter som følge, samt den sociale praksis, som teksten og den diskursive praksis er en del af. Analysen har to fokusområder: Effekterne i Evo Morales’ og Juan Peróns diskurser i forbindelse med etableringen af identiteter og sociale relationer mellem mennesker, og effekterne af deres diskurser, dvs. hvordan deres diskurser bidrager til at ændre sociale relationer i samfundet. Der argumenteres for, at vores to cases har væsentlige lighedspunkter, idet den diskursive logik, der vedrører skabelsen af identiteter og relationer går igen på tværs af tid og rum. Side 2 af 70 Introduction When Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia in 2005, he became the nation’s first indigenous president. Morales had since the 1980s been the leader of an indigenous social movement, which had its bases in the coca producers’ sindicato unions organization in the Tropic of Cochabamba region. The movement’s fight for the rights of coca producers, cocaleros, against the Bolivian government and the USA in the brutal War on Drugs in the 1980s and 1990s expanded to a more general demand for change in the political system, from which the indigenous part of the population had long been excluded from influence in. By the 2000s, the Bolivian governments’ neoliberal reforms and privatization of natural resources were causing a growing resentment among the population, which culminated in five years of various violent and bloody social conflicts. During this period, a popular nationalist sentiment emerged as a challenge to the Bolivian government and elite’s hegemonic power in society, demanding a change to the status quo. Through his discourse, Morales sought to reach out to other sectors of society by establishing relations across sectors in society and against the elite, thus expanding the indigenous movement’s, and the people’s, influence. Morales was elected president of Bolivia in 2005 with a majority of the national vote. After serving in different government positions during the military administration which in 1943 had staged a coup d’etat and ended 13 years of conservative leadership based on the interests of the elite, Juan Perón was elected president of Argentina in 1946. The previous decade had been characterized by the marginalization of the working class. In the 1930’s, real wages in general declined, so salaries often decreased compared to the inflation in real terms, and since the formal labor legislation that did exist only sporadically was being enforced, the workers were finding themselves in a highly disadvantageous position in relation to their employers (James, 1988, p. 8). Because political elections were repeatedly rigged, those in favor of status quo were virtually untouchable (Berhó, 2000, pp. 65-66). As Secretary of Labor in the military government, Perón became involved with labor affairs as he intervened in strikes and made substantial legislation favoring the workers at the expense of the elite. During the elections, Perón, already supported by powerful social actors