AEGiS-14IAC: The AIDS in the Argentine discourse at the UNGASS.

14th International AIDS Conference


Barcelona, Spain - July 7-12, 2002

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The AIDS in the Argentine discourse at the UNGASS.

Int Conf AIDS 2002 Jul 7-12; 14:(abstract no. E11419)

Gomez RE, Carabajal JJ
Author -Docente/Investigador: UNR, Rosario, Argentina

BACKGROUND: A representant of Argentine comunicated the engagement of the Government, making a speech to the United Nations. The speech was analysied with the objetive of: to inquire how the situation of HIV/Aids is established in Argentine from the oficial speech.

METHODS: Analysis of discourse from the Critic Hemeneutic perspective and combined with Deconstruccionist Retoric focus using the Content Analysis as a technique. The process was: reading of corpus, specifying of frecuency of concept appearance, separation and clasification by theme-ideas; identification of argumentative strategies and grammar figures for the interpretative analysis.

RESULTS: Appear 35 social actors, but only 4 of them obtained f>3; poor use of deixis without first person of singular. They are determined 70 actions but the author involve himself only in the 18,5% of them In the actions were the character a government institution is observed a pasive position. Theme-Ideas:*The epidemic situation in Argentine: The argumentative strategies are:the place of the HIV/Aids situation in Argentine was not important and it was blamed the Menem government because of there were lack of actions. The HIV/Aids appeared as enemy with subjetive status and he speaks about HIV/Aids making use of military metaphors.*Actions of Gobernment about HIV/Aids: there are only 4 actions: diffusion, preventive action, subsidys, medicaments access; however he establish it is necessary urgent meassures but he didn't say which that meassures and who would carry out them.

CONCLUSIONS: The most of the afirmations could be classified as light words because these have incompleted information, besides little accuracy and they are used as argument to support an idea. At last we have an important point: The addressee because it determinates the discourse gender, the choice of procedures of structuring and the selection of linguistics resoures, that is the style of the text.

Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV Infections, HIV Seropositivity, Disease Outbreaks, ResearchKWDaegis,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,hivinfections,hivseropositivity,diseaseoutbreaks,research

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