México
Desde la perspectiva del análisis crítico del discurso y la pragmática, analizamos las representaciones discursivas en torno a grupos socialmente «problematizados» que aparecen en muestras selectivas que hemos tomado de la prensa de Guadalajara, de principios del siglo XX. Mostraremos la importancia que tenía la metaforización como vehículo de representaciones conflictivas y discriminadoras de ciertos actores sociales, que eran considerados inferiores, problemáticos, amenazantes, indeseables o anormales.
From the perspective of the critical analysis of the speech and the pragmatics, we analyze the discursive representations around groups socially showed as a problem, that appear in selective samples that we have taken of the Guadalajara’s press, of the beginning of the XXth century. We will show the importance that the metaforization took as a vehicle of troubled representations and discrimination of certain social actors, who were considered to be low, problematic, threatening, undesirable or abnormal.