Abstracts - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

PATRICIA PRECIADO LLOYD, BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLASEMIOSIS OF ´´ALLIANCE´´ AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTThis paper addresses semiosis as manifested in discourses that concern publiceducation in México in a context that some describe as social fissure. In seeking tocontribute to the understanding of the relation between social practices anddiscursive practices in social experience, this work draws from the program forCritical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in terms proposed by Chouliaraki and Fairclough(1999) and from the work of C.N. Candlin (2006) as he regards ´strategy´ as aphenomenon involving hybridity, intertextuality and interdiscursivity.The study explores the process of transforming the public education system ofMexico focusing on the means and manners in which the specific term ´alliance´ isstrategically used to represent the social forces that work towards social resistanceand/or change. The methodology employed is based on SFL grammar analysis (Buttet al, 2000) in combination with a multilayered procedure suggested by Bhatia(2004). The results of examining the official discourse instantiated in a key policydocument entitled ´Alianza para la Calidad de la Educación´ issued by the Mexicangovernment in 2008 are presented in this paper with the aim of unveiling howinterdiscursivity works through the interplay of diverse semiotic systems in acountry in a process of development.PAPER SESSION 1B, ROOM 2 - MONDAY 25 JULYISFC38 Book of Abstracts Page 159 Lisbon, July 2011