Circulation of sociodiscursive representations and (re)production of stereotypes regarding housing issues in Buenos Aires City
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https://doi.org/10.4151/S0718-09342025011701113Keywords:
Invisibilized violence, Critical Discourse Analysis, Method of Converging Linguistic Approaches.Abstract
The right to housing is one of the most violated in Argentina and it especially affects people living in extreme poverty. This work focuses on this problem within the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA). The paper studies, linguistically-discursively, how the construction and circulation of stereotypes about said people: a) impact on their possibilities of self-management and resilience, and b) are discursive actions inscribed within the concept of 'invisible violence'. The analyzed corpus is made up of legal discourses, and discourses “of” and “in” the media. All of them, associated with the housing problem of people in situation of extreme poverty who live in CABA. The research paradigm adopted is interpretative, and the approach is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The methodology is inductive and qualitative, with triangulation of data. The Method of Converging Linguistic Approaches was applied, which incorporates the study of processes and participating roles. Regarding these, the results reveal that people in situation of extreme poverty are represented with a linguistic-discursive pattern that reduces their capacity for action, which makes it difficult for them to address the housing problem proactively. Based on these specific data, it is concluded that it is relevant to analyze the discourses that surround this problem in order to collaborate in making more effective and equitable decisions.
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