COMPONENTES SEMÁNTICO-DISCURSIVOS, MODALIDADES ENUNCIATIVAS Y LA IMAGEN DE LAS SUPERPOTENCIAS EN EL SIGLO (1957-1962)

Abstract

(The corpus studied involves all the editorials on international affairs during a six years period published in El Siglo, the official newspaper of Chile’s Communist Party. The texts are studied on the basis of the following semanticdiscoursive components: (1) descriptive-evaluative; (2) didactic-ethical;(3) prescriptive-exhortative. The programmatic-promisory component is almost absent as it appears to be more typical of oral political discourse. Regarding enunciation, examples are given of appreciative-axiological, epistemic, alethic, deontic and volitive modalities. There appears to be a certain similarity with a previously-studied corpus from the conservative press. The evidence suggests a tentative identification of the readers addressed by both corpuses. Also, there are appears to be some correspondence between various discourse levels and one syntactic choice.)