This probe is based on the supposition that the drug trafficking phenomenon is accompanied by fundamental changes in our social conception and a broad range of communicative interactions susceptible to description through the ethnography of communication as applied to narrative discourse and speech situations serving as the stage or context of a narration (Hymes, 1972; Read More
This Boot Camp is based on a preliminary report of the research project named “Advertising Reasoning and Persuasive Communication”. My starting point was to assume that advertising discourse (Chandler-Munday, 2011) and publicity texts convey speeches and conjoin the construction of the collective imagination in our consumer society, dominated by the rhetoric strategies of the mass Read More
The El Dorado myth is a European creation based on various stories that had been narrated by Native Americans and a series of medieval representations that formed part of the Renaissance’s collective imagination (1). The El Dorado myth incorporated the dreams of some Europeans and founded their own reality in the New World. America Read More
Introduction Fernando Botero and Pablo Escobar are an example of the paradoxes of a society mired in contradictions and paradoxes, where beauty, art and culture coexist with violence, hunger and death. Both are anomalous, complex subjects. The junction between the words of Botero and the death of Pablo are examples of events and things that Read More