Actos de habla en editoriales del periódico "La Nación" de Costa Rica

Abstract

This work presents the analysis of speech acts used in editorials of Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, regarding one the biggest political scandals, supposedly on corruption grounds, occurred in the latest years, in which three former presidents of the republic were involved. These results correspond to a critical discourse analysis on the treatment given by this newspaper to one of these scandals, the “CCSS-Fischel” case, (or “Finnish Credit”). In this investigation, said speech acts were analyzed with the objective of detecting the existence of power struggles. In the article such speech acts are examined and, furthermore, the necessary conditions for their accomplishment are established. The study is based on Searle’s theory of the Speech Acts, with the contribution, mainly, of studies made by Eemeren. Also, we observed that the sources consulted did not mention the necessary conditions to carry out the different speech acts. This is why we decided to establish them in order to obtain a more accurate  analysis and to validate our results.