La construcción discursiva de las violaciones de derechos humanos : las protestas sociales chilenas de 2019

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De Cock, Barbara

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Master [120] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation générale, à finalité didactique

Abstract

enHuman rights continue to be violated on a daily basis all around the world. Most of people become aware of these violations thanks to language, that is, through the different discourses that are spread about these events. However, according to the discursive analysis, language builds our vision of the world that surrounds us, and, consequently, of events such as human rights abuses. This study is therefore interested in the discursive construction of human rights violations, and, for that reason, it analyses the discursive genre of human rights reports. Two reports, one published by the organism ACNUDH and the second by Amnesty International, are investigated on the basis of three different lines of investigation: the representation of victims and perpetrators, the representation of the sources and the attribution of responsibility. The analysis shows the different mechanisms adopted by the reports in order to describe the events and it shows how those reports can use language differently depending on the goal that they pursue.