Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina

This work focuses on the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina. We identify and analyze processes of rebuttal and re-signification of arguments held by promoting sectors of nuclear power in the article The nuclear crack. Departing from an instrumental use of discourse analysis, and paying p...

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Autor principal: Piaz, Agustín
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica - Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentin 2019
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spelling I22-R128-article-25072024-04-09T12:08:38Z Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina Hacia un discurso antinuclear: procesos de refutación y re-significación en la polémica pública por la producción de nucleoelectricidad en Argentina Piaz, Agustín Nuclear Power Controversies Public Polemic Discourse Environment. Tecnología nuclear Controversias Polémica Pública Discursos Ambiente This work focuses on the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina. We identify and analyze processes of rebuttal and re-signification of arguments held by promoting sectors of nuclear power in the article The nuclear crack. Departing from an instrumental use of discourse analysis, and paying particular attention to the argumentative function of the topoi, we study a key dimension of the dichotomization mechanism conformed by the processes of rebuttal and re-signification of arguments that constitute the `nuclear speech´. We argued that the rebuttal and re-signification of the conceptualizations of nuclear technology as clean, safe and cheap in the case study makes possibly to identify the emergence of a counter-discourse that we propose to define as an antinuclear discourse. En este trabajo se aborda la polémica pública por la producción de nucleoelectricidad en Argentina a partir de la identificación, descripción y análisis de procesos de refutación y resignificación de argumentos sostenidos por sectores promotores de la energía atómica en el artículo periodístico La grieta nuclear. Implementando un uso instrumental del análisis del discurso, y prestando especial atención a la función argumentativa de los topoi, se estudia una dimensión central del mecanismo de dicotomización conformada por los procesos de refutación y resignificación de argumentos que constituyen la denominada “monserga nuclear”. En este sentido, se sostiene que la refutación y resignificación de las conceptualizaciones de la tecnología nuclear como limpia, segura y barata en el caso de estudio permite identificar la emergencia de un “discurso contra” que proponemos denominar en términos de antinuclear. Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica - Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentin 2019-12-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/2507 Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales; Vol. 22 Núm. 4 (2019): Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales; 25-35 1851-3123 1666-0579 spa https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/2507/59206 Derechos de autor 2019 Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales
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language Español
format Artículo revista
topic Nuclear Power
Controversies
Public Polemic
Discourse
Environment.
Tecnología nuclear
Controversias
Polémica Pública
Discursos
Ambiente
spellingShingle Nuclear Power
Controversies
Public Polemic
Discourse
Environment.
Tecnología nuclear
Controversias
Polémica Pública
Discursos
Ambiente
Piaz, Agustín
Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina
topic_facet Nuclear Power
Controversies
Public Polemic
Discourse
Environment.
Tecnología nuclear
Controversias
Polémica Pública
Discursos
Ambiente
author Piaz, Agustín
author_facet Piaz, Agustín
author_sort Piaz, Agustín
title Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina
title_short Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina
title_full Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina
title_fullStr Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina
title_sort towards an antinuclear discourse: rebuttal and re-signification processes in the public polemic over nuclear power in argentina
description This work focuses on the public polemic over nuclear power in Argentina. We identify and analyze processes of rebuttal and re-signification of arguments held by promoting sectors of nuclear power in the article The nuclear crack. Departing from an instrumental use of discourse analysis, and paying particular attention to the argumentative function of the topoi, we study a key dimension of the dichotomization mechanism conformed by the processes of rebuttal and re-signification of arguments that constitute the `nuclear speech´. We argued that the rebuttal and re-signification of the conceptualizations of nuclear technology as clean, safe and cheap in the case study makes possibly to identify the emergence of a counter-discourse that we propose to define as an antinuclear discourse.
publisher Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica - Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentin
publishDate 2019
url https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/2507
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