Abstract

CALLEGARO, Adriana. THE JURIDICAL SPEAKER’S LEGITIMACY IN THE ARGENTINIAN RADIO BROADCASTING LAW (22285/80). Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2009, vol.22, n.1, pp.15-44. ISSN 0120-338X.

This paper aproaches a discursive analysis of the preliminary recitals in the 22285/80 Law, which regulates radio broadcasts in Argentina. It was enacted within a context of military dictatorship and was signed by Jorge R. Videla, Emilio E. Massera and Albano Harguindeguy. It lacks the legitimacy that should come from the production site, since it wasn't promulgated by any democratic institution. By using theoretical tools from Argumentative Discourse Analysis, we intend to evidence the discursive strategies displayed in the text in order to become a legitimate speaker, given its lack of the necessary pre-discursive ethos. Nevertheless, the change of lingüistic forms and argumentative procedures sheds light on the reality involved in this Law, beyond the many techniques that attempt to frame communication in a nonexistent democratic reality. The use of enthymemes, which appeal to the belief's knowledge and the norm's authority, does not manage to hide the controlling purposes over communications and assures the endurance of this law, still in force after several decades of constitutional governments.

Keywords : legitimacy; Argumentative Discourse Analysis; enthymemes; monologic speaker; broadcasting policies.

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