Abstract

VAZQUEZ VILLANUEVA, Graciana. DISCOURSE BODIES AND TONES: A SPOKESPERSON OF XIX CENTURY HISPANIC-AMERICANISM (BERNARDO MONTEAGUDO). Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2007, n.20, pp.197-224. ISSN 0120-338X.

Starting from the papers published in Gaceta de Buenos Aires by Bernardo Monteagudo between 1811 and 1812, in this work we present the shaping of a discourse tradition zone of the Hispanic-Americanism revolution discourse in the nineteenth century. Such discourse focuses on the construction of a particular political subject: the militant spokesperson. To go deeper into the roots of the emergence of such a discourse tradition, our analysis is aimed at highlighting three strategies: The spokesperson, the discourse ethos, and the discourse community. The spokesperson, understood as a particular form of political behaviour, allows to outline the emergence of political modernity based on the subjects involved in a complex set of pre-constructed cultural beliefs related to the enlightened and romantic relationship. The delimitation of the ethos implies considering the image of the subject based on the tone, the framework and the discourse characteristics embodied in various language footprints. Finally, the foundation of a discourse community, defined as the social face of all discourse formation, allows to link the forming of a way of speaking -a language, a system of representations- and a political order. Based on these strategies one can trace the discourse models of the Hispanic-Americanism that will be retaken and reshaped in further historical processes to expand a Latin-American discourse memory born from the necessity of implementing the regional integration.

Keywords : hispanic-Americanism discourse; discourse ethos; discourse community.

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