Lenguaje como estrategia de poder en las guerras civiles

Language as power strategy in the civil wars

Fernando Estrada

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Abstract: In this paper I examine the paradoxical role of language in conflict situations. Support the war and negotiation belong to a game of "speech acts" structured by a double metonymic and metaphorical relationship. That metaphorical relationship between both conceptualizes negotiation as a condensed analogy of war, metonymy exposed negotiation as its counterpart. That while veiled metaphor allows military aspects identify the statements and speeches of the armed actors, the metonymic relationship extends the argumentative function as one with the power play. Also argue that language can operate as an extended form of civil war or, on the contrary, as is desirable, can shape a political expression of it. What I think is not identical.

Keywords: Language; Strategic in Civil Wars; Rhetoric; Metaphor; Game Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B41 B5 D74 D81 D82 D87 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004, Revised 2014
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