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Creating a narrative: Media representations of enforced disappearances in Nuevo Leon, Mexico

This study is a critical discourse analysis of the media coverage of enforced disappearances in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, from 2010-2016. Preliminary results show that the linguistic ambiguity used to characterize the disappearances obfuscates the culpability of the perpetrators, questions the victimhood of the disappeared, and leads to a misclassification of the crimes at the legal level.

YOKO HAMA, OLGA SALAZAR POZOS AND JAMES RAMSBURG

Hama, Ramsburg, and Salazar are three PhD students specializing in various aspects of Hispanic linguistic, literary, and cultural analysis. Their present study is a part of a larger project in which they aim to provide culturally-informed linguistic accounts of the discourses surrounding enforced disappearance across Mexico and Latin America.