The press is the oldest mass media there is, and although at presentthe technologies have changed the medium in which these texts arepublished or how they reach readers, the journalistic discourse hascertain features that allow us to know something of the society inwhich it occurs and, because of this, are a reflection of the societyin a certain moment. For this reason, and on the occasion of theBicentennial of Chile, it is pertinent to go back to the beginnings of thepress in our country and try to approach the period of independencethrough the journalistic texts published in la Aurora de Chile and ElMonitor Araucano, the first newspapers in our country, through adiscursive approach, with special attention to the context and referentsof the daily life of the young country.
Keywords:
text, discourse, Chilean press, context
Author Biography
Teresa Ayala Pérez, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
Teresa Ayala (teresa.ayala@umce.cl), Departamento de Castellano, Facultad de Historia, Geografía y Letras, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, José Pedro Alessandri 774, Ñuñoa, Santiago de Chile.
Ayala Pérez, T. (2010). Chilean journalistic texts in the Independence period. Boletín De Filología, 45(1). Retrieved from https://boletincorteidh.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/1322
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