THE CYCLE OF IDENTITIES WITHIN THE SOCIAL PRACTICE OF ELECTIONS
THE CYCLE OF IDENTITIES WITHIN THE SOCIAL PRACTICE OF ELECTIONS

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to substantiate the view that through linguistic and socialrepresentations, discursive practices serve to establish or conceal relations of power anddominance between interactants, between national, ethnic, religious, sexual, political andcultural communities. The analysis of a front-page article in The Guardian (2000),emphasizes the way in which linguistic representations interpret self-images promoted byvarious political trends within the social practice of elections. Through discourses, socialactors constitute objects of knowledge and social roles as well as identities andinterpersonal relations between different social groups. A close look at the linguisticpossibilities in action throughout the article reveals important meanings about whatjournalists generally understand of these actors. Moreover, certain ideologies andhegemonies are disclosed by the textual representations of the ‘actors’ involved in socialrelationships

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