Political teachers vs. teachers with a true vocation. Implicit meanings and strategies to represent teachers in the discourses of the Cambiemos administration

Abstract

Within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, the general objective of this article is to analyse how teachers are represented in five speeches made by officials of the Cambiemos administration. We study how certain resources are oriented in relation to specific discursive strategies that contribute to constructing and reproducing social representations of teachers. In order to analyse discourses, the study of implicit meanings is particularly relevant as these are related to the generation of consensus and the production and reproduction of ideology. We will address two kinds of implicit meanings: presuppositions and implicaturas. We argue that the representations of teachers in these discourses are fundamentally constructed through two strategies: a. responsibilisation of the policy/system and b. delegitimisation of teachers.