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2020 - Volume 3 - Number 2

“Maestro: el Gran Aliado”: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Carolina Campoy-Aguirre * aniloraccam.ag@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-6855-9033 * ResearcherID: AAY-2004-2020
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2020, 3(2), 83-92 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0302.04083c
Received: 30 May 2020 ▪ Accepted: 7 September 2020 ▪ Published Online: 1 December 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
This article examined an opinion column titled Maestro: el Gran Aliado (teachers: The great ally) from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The relevance of the analysis of this piece lies on the fact that our current minister of education wrote it shortly before accepting this position. The study sets out to explore the linguistic features used in this opinion column and uncover the opaque intentions behind it. The analysis is conducted through the use of systemic functional linguistics. The findings imply that the discourse used in this opinion column had a different intention than the transparent purpose stated by the name given to it.

KEY WORDS: critical discourse analysis, transitivity, modality, textual, opaque meaning, opinion column, systemic functional linguistics.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Carolina Campoy-Aguirre, University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO. E-mail: aniloraccam.ag@gmail.com.

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