Historical explanations in the Rettig Report: The role of interpersonal grammatical metaphors

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1177/09579265221096030

Claudia Castro, Teresa Oteíza

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Abstract

This article explores different realizations of modality meanings in Spanish written language and their contribution to dialogic positionings in the field of the historical explanations provided in The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report (1991) regarding human rights violations during Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990). From an ideological, socio-semiotic perspective anchored in the theoretical framework provided by Systemic Functional Linguistics, the analysis focuses on congruent and metaphorical expressions of modality in the text and their contribution to authors’ positionings as organized in the system of engagement, considering, at the lexicogrammatical level, the place of modality in the interpersonal, ideational, and logical structure of the clause. The analysis shows the productive role of a range of realizations of modality meanings in the discourse to construe an interpretation of a conflicting, traumatic recent past and to present and validate the authorial voice regarding its mission and actions. An outline of grammatical interpersonal metaphors of modality for Spanish written language is also presented.

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雷蒂格报告中的历史阐释：人际语法隐喻的作用

本文探讨了西班牙语书面语言中模态意义的不同实现，以及它们对《国家真相与和解委员会报告》（1991）中关于皮诺切特独裁统治期间智利（1973–1990）侵犯人权的历史解释领域的对话立场的贡献。从意识形态、社会符号学的角度，以系统功能语言学提供的理论框架为基础，分析重点是文本中情态的一致性和隐喻性表达，以及它们对作者在参与系统中的定位的贡献，在词典语法层面上，考虑到情态在人际关系中的位置，从句的概念结构和逻辑结构。该分析显示了一系列模态意义的实现在话语中的生产性作用，以解释对冲突、创伤的最近过去的解释，并呈现和验证作者关于其使命和行动的声音。本文还概述了西班牙语书面语情态的语法人际隐喻。

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期刊介绍： Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.