Linguistic persuasion for the defense of the land: Primordial Title of Santiago Sula
Journal Title: Textos en Proceso - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
At the end of the colonial period, peasant indigenous societies of the New Spain created a way to defend their territories from the growing colonialist threat, the creoles and other indigenous peoples who encroached these lands illegally. These indigenous peoples started to produce a type of texts called “Primordial Titles” to prove the ownership of their possessions. They are not administrative texts, but documents filled with narrations of the most important events for the community in the past. But they mainly are texts whose discourse analysis shows they were made with the intention of persuasion their recipients about the truthfulness of their arguments. They aimed at convincing, linguistic and textually, to make an impact on real life by not being stolen their land. The target of this work is having a closer approach to this type of texts through the analysis of the “Primordial Title” of Santiago Sula, a paradigmatic document of its genre. This is intended to demonstrate that this text is defined by its argumentative structure with a narrator having different types of arguments as well as other discourse strategies to strengthen the conclusion: the defence of the land.
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Marta Puente González
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