Semiotics of corruption : ideological complexes in Mexican politics

Bob Hodge, Eva Salgado Andrade, Frida Villavicencio Zarza

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Abstract

This article analyses a complex text and event to examine the role of ramifying contradictions in strategic social semiotics analysis. The focus was a paradoxical intervention into corruption by then-Mexican President Peña, who responded to an unprecedented wave of popular criticisms of corruption by simultaneously launching an Anticorruption System and apologizing for his own corruption. We asked: how did this contradiction work, in this conjuncture, with what effects, and how analyse them? We combined the concepts of the Ideological Complex and Wittgenstein’s “duck-rabbit” to explain unstable contradictions in a multiscalar, multimodal analysis of a diachronic corpus, to expose discursive strategies and identify points of vulnerability.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)584-602
Number of pages19
JournalSocial Semiotics
Volume29
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • Mexico
  • contradictions
  • corruption
  • political corruption

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