Entre las culturascaminos fronterizos en el análisis del discurso

  1. Jäger, Siegfried
  2. Engelken Jorge, Marcos trad.
Journal:
Discurso & Sociedad

ISSN: 1887-4606

Year of publication: 2008

Volume: 2

Issue: 3

Pages: 503-532

Type: Article

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Abstract

The main question of this paper is under what conditions peaceful multicultural societies are able to develop and which barriers must be crossed in such a development. This question is discussed within a discourse theoretical framework inspired by French philosopher Michel Foucault. According to this framework the world, exposed to the politics of globalization, must be understood as a discursive "swarm" (German: "Gewimmel") that produces the application guidelines for the construction of reality. Thus, the difficulties confronted by multicultural societies are made explicit, and at the same time made visible the possibilities of a solution - which is hardly simple but extremely complex.