Construction of the “moral of the strict father” in the journalistic discourse.

Abstract

This article, derived from the research: Discurso, espectacularización y “moral del padre estricto”, reflects on the way in which the “strict father morality” is built in the 1916 edition of the magazine Semana, in which the attack is reported terrorist to the General Santander Cadet School. To do this, it reviews and analyzes the discourse of the corpus and identifies metaphors, syntactic constructions, use of emotions and the representation of actors on which the “strict father morality” is built. After the analysis process, it concludes with the identification and reflection on which structures this type of morality, ranging from the representation of Colombia in a state of cases that must be solved with “the heavy hand” of the national government, passing through the suggestion from the lifting of the dialogue table with the ELN, to the moral and sovereign legitimation of authority figures.