Análisis Macroestructural Semántico del discurso de la prensa latinoamericana digital sobre los ataques del 11 de septiembre

Abstract

This article analyzes the exclusion and inclusion of actions and social actors in the representation of the events of the 11th of September in New York in the Latin American digital press. The CDA is used following the principles established by Van Dijk. The sample is conformed by 509 selected news of the cover of seventeen Latin American digital newspapers, from the 12 to the 16th of September. We emphasize: the contents of the newspapers  that were examined reproduce the discourse of the American news agencies; the topics reflect a discourse without reference to the past, without reflection on the causes of the events; the selected topics are product of opinions, ideologies and values that come from the ideologies of the American military, politic and journalistic elites, and the construction of identities is established by a dichotomy I-Us , United States-Latin America, the society with positive values, and He /She -They -Other , the Arabs, the Afghan representatives of the values rejected by the society.