Ideology and speech in times of crisis

Abstract

The article Cuba: ideology and speech in times of crisis responds to the intention of studying the underlying ideology in the journalistic speech of economic, political and social topics through a sample of 40 works published by the newspaper of Cienfuegos province in 1993. For it, there are born in mind the social and communicative contexts of the period, in addition to the strategy of ideological polarization followed by the media press like form of clash to the crisis. The application of the method of ideological analysis of the speech, proposed by Ph.D. Teun Van Dijk, provides information about the ideological structures and their value in a certain context. A part of the yielded outcomes points out that the editions of the newspaper 5 de Septiembre of 1993 make emphasis on the positive actions of the ingroup (group whose ideology is shared) and mitigate their errors or difficulties. As well as, the descriptions of the outgroup (group whose ideology is rejected) are less appellants, avoiding some topics of social interest for being less according to the publishing politics of the media. The journalistic works do not do direct allusion to the crisis state and, on the other hand, they focus in raising the fortitude of the population by means of slogans, syntactic constructions that denote an image of national victory and the employment of verbs that indicate actions of solution.