J E Bonnin
Biographic Data
| ID | 18440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J E Bonnin |
| GIVEN NAMES | J E |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonnin |
| SIGNATURE | BONNIN J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3459-0259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Discourse
This overview examines discourse studies as a fundamental area within applied linguistics, exploring how language shapes and is shaped by social life, power relations, and ideological systems. It does so acknowledging the field's internal diversity across theoretical traditions, geographic contexts, and analytical practices. The entry traces the conceptual diversity of “discourse”—from language in use to systemic frameworks governing meaning prod…
From the language part of work to the languages of academia
The aim of this paper is to offer a critical reading of J. Boutet's work from my position as an Argentine linguist who has been working for many years in interdisciplinary teams, including labor scholars and trade unionists. This position motivated the reading I propose here on three aspects of Boutet's work in relation to language: (1) the concept of "language part of work" and its contribution to interdisciplinary dialogue in labor studies; (2)…
Interacción institucional y socialización profesional
El objetivo de este trabajo es observar el impacto de la socialización profesional en la interacción entre psicólogos y pacientes en los consultorios externos de salud mental de un hospital público de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Desde una perspectiva crítica que combina el análisis de la conversación con el análisis del discurso, analizamos entrevistas de admisión realizadas por profesionales de planta del hospital y por profesionales p…
Attitudes Toward Gender-Neutral Spanish
This article presents the results of a survey conducted in January 2020 about attitudes toward gender-neutral language in Argentina. The survey was delivered mainly through social networks to 4,205 participants, and its results help understand the complexity of the attitudes toward the phenomenon. In particular, I will argue two hypotheses: 1) that an extensive favorable attitude of acceptance toward gender-neutral language does not imply extensi…
Debating translanguaging
In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussio…
Discourse analysis for social change
The aim of this essay is to propose some key challenges and problems in the field of language in society. In the current context of global crisis, we have the opportunity to design a research agenda for an uncertain future from a dark present. But there is no reason why that agenda should also be uncertain and dark. An agenda thus established can start from three aspects that I explore in this article: the recognition and appreciation of multiple…
LondoÑO Zapata, Oscar IVÁN (2012). Los estudios del discurso
Reseña LONDOÑO ZAPATA, OSCAR IVÁN (2012). Los estudios del discurso: miradas latinoamericanas I. Ibagué: Universidad de Ibagué. 206 pp. ISBN: 978-958-754-055-0
Rethinking Populist Discourse From Latin America
The aim of this article is to explore some of the ideological and empirical limits of studies on populism from a perspective based on Latin American history and theories, on one hand, and current ideas about digitalization and political discourse, on the other. I will first argue that studies on populism have a monolingual bias that conceals an ethnocentric view on academic research. As a consequence, when the term “populism” is applied to Latin …
Dinámicas de la voz y producción de legibilidad en los Documentos Finales de Medellín (1968)
En este trabajo analizamos los procesos de negociación discursiva entre sectores diversos del catolicismo latinoamericano a través del examen de los borradores de los Documentos finales de Medellín de la II Conferencia General del Episcopado Latinoamericano (1968). Para ello triangulamos los procedimientos analíticos del análisis del discurso con la mirada procesual y empírica de la crítica genética. Conceptualizamos los resultados obtenidos como…
Double stance discourse
This article presents the results of a collaborative interdisciplinary multimethod research project on psychosocial risks and communication in the workplace that involved the Union of Metro Workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The objective of this article is twofold: on one hand, to understand an apparent contradiction in the results of the quantitative survey, which showed very high levels of stress and, at the same time, very high levels of sat…
Dissent, Protest and Resistance
The aim of this article is to analyse the concept of “dissent” under the light of political practice in Argentina. I propose a critical theoretical position, which differentiates different discourse practices of contestation: resistance, dissent and protest. After a theoretical discussion regarding the difference between actors and contestation discourse practices, I argue the need for an empirical approach to political discourse theory. Hence, I…
Formulations in Psychotherapy
In this article, we contribute to understanding the interactional aspects of making clinical diagnosis in mental health care. We observe that therapists, during the "problem presentation" sequence in clinical encounters, often use a specific form of diagnostic formulations to elicit more diagnostically relevant information. By doing so, they often substitute one type of verb with another, following a diagnostic hypothesis. Specifically, in interv…
Authenticity, identity and narrative inequality
This article analyzes narratives of the Malvinas war by a group of Argentine non-recognized veterans. Our aim is to understand the discursive conditions of their situation, which leaves them in an unequal position with respect to other veterans. Analysis will show that their stories are shaped in a way which is not compatible with the hegemonic narratives about war, thus receiving an unequal legal treatment
Negotiating use, norm and authority in online language forums
The acquisition of a particular language and its standard norms of use have been traditionally channeled through education, dictionaries and institutional publications, but more and more, the internet has become a recurrent platform to consult norms and rules, through different forms of electronically mediated communication in which language users discuss, define and re-construct the idea of standard language. This study (1) presents a platform t…
Crítica de Glozman & Lauria (2012)
Preview this article: Mara Glozman y Daniela Lauría. Voces y ecos. Una antología de los debates sobre la lengua nacional (Argentina, 1900–2000), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sic.11.3.08jua-1.gif
Discurso político y cambio de código
In this article we analyze the alternation between Guarani and Spanish in the public speech of Paraguayan Ex-President Fernando Lugo. To do this, we first describe some historical and present features of bilingualism in Paraguay. Second, we review current literature on codeswitching to clarify in what sense we understand it: not as an alternation between grammatical systems but between symbolic representations of languages. The analysis of the co…
To speak with the other's voice
The aim of this article is to examine the case of adoption of characteristic features of the interlocutor's ‘voice’ in mental health care admission interviews at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We observed ethnographically that ‘speaking with the Other's voice’ is a strategy adopted by psychoanalysts to achieve clinical goals, though they overlook its wider implications and contradictions as it involves both professionals and patien…
Expanded answers to bureaucratic questions
This article analyzes expanded responses to statistical-epidemiological questions at a mental health outpatient service at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bureaucratic questioning is a highly routine activity which supplies information to the biopolitical apparatus of the modern State. We understand that expanded answers are meaningful actions which not only serve individual, local tactics (such as raising personal concerns), but al…
The public, the private and the intimate in doctor-patient communication
This article analyzes doctor-patient communication at admission interviews in an outpatient mental health care service at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. These interviews are the first contact between professionals and patients, and they result in the admission or rejection of the latter into the medical institution. In particular, we observe how context, understood as a sociocognitive and scalar concept, is reshaped with gaze direc…
New Dimensions of Linguistic Inequality
Relationships between language and inequality are a constitutive part of contemporary sociolinguistic theory which, despite certain specialized discussions and controversies, has developed a well-established set of theoretical assumptions. Our aim in this paper is to introduce an overview of these as well as to point out some emerging new perspectives on the issue of linguistic inequality.After a short introduction to critical sociolinguistics, I…
Scenes of Explicit Catholicism
This article analyzes the relationships between religious and political discourse in Argentina with regard to the recent election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new Catholic Pope, Francis. In first place, we establish a theoretical distinction between "Catholicism" and "Church" in order to understand the historical complex bonds between religion and politics in Argentina. This will allow us to characterize Bergoglio as a skilful actor, who is ab…
From discursive event to discourse événement
This article analyses the interplay between religious and political discourse in Argentina, departing from a case study located in the transition towards democracy in April 1987, and conveying military, political and religious discourse within the conflicts that surrounded the government of President Raúl R. Alfonsín (1983–9). It involved a well-established discourse genre, the homily, within an historical social practice, the Catholic mass; but …
Los género discursivos en la estrategia del episcopado católico argentino
En este trabajo nos proponemos: a) contribuir a la comprensin de los discursos religiosos institucionales a partir del anlisis de la produccin discursiva de la Conferencia Episcopal Argentina (CEA) y b) examinar sus estrategias discursivas en el proceso de transicin a la democracia iniciado en diciembre de 1983. Para ello examinamos su sistema de gneros discursivos, concentrndonos en tres que registran una significativa variacin cuantitativa: las…
Religious and political discourse in Argentina
This article analyzes the nominalization 'reconciliation' as a grammar metaphor that allows for the understanding of the historical relationships between religious and political discourse in Argentina. In order to do this, we will analyze the case of the publication of the Final Document of the Military Junta on the Fight against Terrorism and Subversion, in 1983, and its subsequent interpretations made by political and religious actors in terms …
Debating translanguaging
In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussio…
From discursive event to discourse événement
This article analyses the interplay between religious and political discourse in Argentina, departing from a case study located in the transition towards democracy in April 1987, and conveying military, political and religious discourse within the conflicts that surrounded the government of President Raúl R. Alfonsín (1983–9). It involved a well-established discourse genre, the homily, within an historical social practice, the Catholic mass; but …
Religious and political discourse in Argentina
This article analyzes the nominalization 'reconciliation' as a grammar metaphor that allows for the understanding of the historical relationships between religious and political discourse in Argentina. In order to do this, we will analyze the case of the publication of the Final Document of the Military Junta on the Fight against Terrorism and Subversion, in 1983, and its subsequent interpretations made by political and religious actors in terms …
Attitudes Toward Gender-Neutral Spanish
This article presents the results of a survey conducted in January 2020 about attitudes toward gender-neutral language in Argentina. The survey was delivered mainly through social networks to 4,205 participants, and its results help understand the complexity of the attitudes toward the phenomenon. In particular, I will argue two hypotheses: 1) that an extensive favorable attitude of acceptance toward gender-neutral language does not imply extensi…
Formulations in Psychotherapy
In this article, we contribute to understanding the interactional aspects of making clinical diagnosis in mental health care. We observe that therapists, during the "problem presentation" sequence in clinical encounters, often use a specific form of diagnostic formulations to elicit more diagnostically relevant information. By doing so, they often substitute one type of verb with another, following a diagnostic hypothesis. Specifically, in interv…
Expanded answers to bureaucratic questions
This article analyzes expanded responses to statistical-epidemiological questions at a mental health outpatient service at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bureaucratic questioning is a highly routine activity which supplies information to the biopolitical apparatus of the modern State. We understand that expanded answers are meaningful actions which not only serve individual, local tactics (such as raising personal concerns), but al…
Discourse analysis for social change
The aim of this essay is to propose some key challenges and problems in the field of language in society. In the current context of global crisis, we have the opportunity to design a research agenda for an uncertain future from a dark present. But there is no reason why that agenda should also be uncertain and dark. An agenda thus established can start from three aspects that I explore in this article: the recognition and appreciation of multiple…
Authenticity, identity and narrative inequality
This article analyzes narratives of the Malvinas war by a group of Argentine non-recognized veterans. Our aim is to understand the discursive conditions of their situation, which leaves them in an unequal position with respect to other veterans. Analysis will show that their stories are shaped in a way which is not compatible with the hegemonic narratives about war, thus receiving an unequal legal treatment
To speak with the other's voice
The aim of this article is to examine the case of adoption of characteristic features of the interlocutor's ‘voice’ in mental health care admission interviews at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We observed ethnographically that ‘speaking with the Other's voice’ is a strategy adopted by psychoanalysts to achieve clinical goals, though they overlook its wider implications and contradictions as it involves both professionals and patien…
The public, the private and the intimate in doctor-patient communication
This article analyzes doctor-patient communication at admission interviews in an outpatient mental health care service at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. These interviews are the first contact between professionals and patients, and they result in the admission or rejection of the latter into the medical institution. In particular, we observe how context, understood as a sociocognitive and scalar concept, is reshaped with gaze direc…
New Dimensions of Linguistic Inequality
Relationships between language and inequality are a constitutive part of contemporary sociolinguistic theory which, despite certain specialized discussions and controversies, has developed a well-established set of theoretical assumptions. Our aim in this paper is to introduce an overview of these as well as to point out some emerging new perspectives on the issue of linguistic inequality.After a short introduction to critical sociolinguistics, I…
Religious and political discourse in Argentina
This article analyzes the nominalization 'reconciliation' as a grammar metaphor that allows for the understanding of the historical relationships between religious and political discourse in Argentina. In order to do this, we will analyze the case of the publication of the Final Document of the Military Junta on the Fight against Terrorism and Subversion, in 1983, and its subsequent interpretations made by political and religious actors in terms …
Los género discursivos en la estrategia del episcopado católico argentino
En este trabajo nos proponemos: a) contribuir a la comprensin de los discursos religiosos institucionales a partir del anlisis de la produccin discursiva de la Conferencia Episcopal Argentina (CEA) y b) examinar sus estrategias discursivas en el proceso de transicin a la democracia iniciado en diciembre de 1983. Para ello examinamos su sistema de gneros discursivos, concentrndonos en tres que registran una significativa variacin cuantitativa: las…
From discursive event to discourse événement
This article analyses the interplay between religious and political discourse in Argentina, departing from a case study located in the transition towards democracy in April 1987, and conveying military, political and religious discourse within the conflicts that surrounded the government of President Raúl R. Alfonsín (1983–9). It involved a well-established discourse genre, the homily, within an historical social practice, the Catholic mass; but …
The public, the private and the intimate in doctor-patient communication
This article analyzes doctor-patient communication at admission interviews in an outpatient mental health care service at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. These interviews are the first contact between professionals and patients, and they result in the admission or rejection of the latter into the medical institution. In particular, we observe how context, understood as a sociocognitive and scalar concept, is reshaped with gaze direc…
New Dimensions of Linguistic Inequality
Relationships between language and inequality are a constitutive part of contemporary sociolinguistic theory which, despite certain specialized discussions and controversies, has developed a well-established set of theoretical assumptions. Our aim in this paper is to introduce an overview of these as well as to point out some emerging new perspectives on the issue of linguistic inequality.After a short introduction to critical sociolinguistics, I…
Scenes of Explicit Catholicism
This article analyzes the relationships between religious and political discourse in Argentina with regard to the recent election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new Catholic Pope, Francis. In first place, we establish a theoretical distinction between "Catholicism" and "Church" in order to understand the historical complex bonds between religion and politics in Argentina. This will allow us to characterize Bergoglio as a skilful actor, who is ab…
Crítica de Glozman & Lauria (2012)
Preview this article: Mara Glozman y Daniela Lauría. Voces y ecos. Una antología de los debates sobre la lengua nacional (Argentina, 1900–2000), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sic.11.3.08jua-1.gif
Discurso político y cambio de código
In this article we analyze the alternation between Guarani and Spanish in the public speech of Paraguayan Ex-President Fernando Lugo. To do this, we first describe some historical and present features of bilingualism in Paraguay. Second, we review current literature on codeswitching to clarify in what sense we understand it: not as an alternation between grammatical systems but between symbolic representations of languages. The analysis of the co…
To speak with the other's voice
The aim of this article is to examine the case of adoption of characteristic features of the interlocutor's ‘voice’ in mental health care admission interviews at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We observed ethnographically that ‘speaking with the Other's voice’ is a strategy adopted by psychoanalysts to achieve clinical goals, though they overlook its wider implications and contradictions as it involves both professionals and patien…
Expanded answers to bureaucratic questions
This article analyzes expanded responses to statistical-epidemiological questions at a mental health outpatient service at a public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bureaucratic questioning is a highly routine activity which supplies information to the biopolitical apparatus of the modern State. We understand that expanded answers are meaningful actions which not only serve individual, local tactics (such as raising personal concerns), but al…
Authenticity, identity and narrative inequality
This article analyzes narratives of the Malvinas war by a group of Argentine non-recognized veterans. Our aim is to understand the discursive conditions of their situation, which leaves them in an unequal position with respect to other veterans. Analysis will show that their stories are shaped in a way which is not compatible with the hegemonic narratives about war, thus receiving an unequal legal treatment
Negotiating use, norm and authority in online language forums
The acquisition of a particular language and its standard norms of use have been traditionally channeled through education, dictionaries and institutional publications, but more and more, the internet has become a recurrent platform to consult norms and rules, through different forms of electronically mediated communication in which language users discuss, define and re-construct the idea of standard language. This study (1) presents a platform t…
Dissent, Protest and Resistance
The aim of this article is to analyse the concept of “dissent” under the light of political practice in Argentina. I propose a critical theoretical position, which differentiates different discourse practices of contestation: resistance, dissent and protest. After a theoretical discussion regarding the difference between actors and contestation discourse practices, I argue the need for an empirical approach to political discourse theory. Hence, I…
Formulations in Psychotherapy
In this article, we contribute to understanding the interactional aspects of making clinical diagnosis in mental health care. We observe that therapists, during the "problem presentation" sequence in clinical encounters, often use a specific form of diagnostic formulations to elicit more diagnostically relevant information. By doing so, they often substitute one type of verb with another, following a diagnostic hypothesis. Specifically, in interv…
Dinámicas de la voz y producción de legibilidad en los Documentos Finales de Medellín (1968)
En este trabajo analizamos los procesos de negociación discursiva entre sectores diversos del catolicismo latinoamericano a través del examen de los borradores de los Documentos finales de Medellín de la II Conferencia General del Episcopado Latinoamericano (1968). Para ello triangulamos los procedimientos analíticos del análisis del discurso con la mirada procesual y empírica de la crítica genética. Conceptualizamos los resultados obtenidos como…
Double stance discourse
This article presents the results of a collaborative interdisciplinary multimethod research project on psychosocial risks and communication in the workplace that involved the Union of Metro Workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The objective of this article is twofold: on one hand, to understand an apparent contradiction in the results of the quantitative survey, which showed very high levels of stress and, at the same time, very high levels of sat…
LondoÑO Zapata, Oscar IVÁN (2012). Los estudios del discurso
Reseña LONDOÑO ZAPATA, OSCAR IVÁN (2012). Los estudios del discurso: miradas latinoamericanas I. Ibagué: Universidad de Ibagué. 206 pp. ISBN: 978-958-754-055-0
Rethinking Populist Discourse From Latin America
The aim of this article is to explore some of the ideological and empirical limits of studies on populism from a perspective based on Latin American history and theories, on one hand, and current ideas about digitalization and political discourse, on the other. I will first argue that studies on populism have a monolingual bias that conceals an ethnocentric view on academic research. As a consequence, when the term “populism” is applied to Latin …
Interacción institucional y socialización profesional
El objetivo de este trabajo es observar el impacto de la socialización profesional en la interacción entre psicólogos y pacientes en los consultorios externos de salud mental de un hospital público de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Desde una perspectiva crítica que combina el análisis de la conversación con el análisis del discurso, analizamos entrevistas de admisión realizadas por profesionales de planta del hospital y por profesionales p…
Attitudes Toward Gender-Neutral Spanish
This article presents the results of a survey conducted in January 2020 about attitudes toward gender-neutral language in Argentina. The survey was delivered mainly through social networks to 4,205 participants, and its results help understand the complexity of the attitudes toward the phenomenon. In particular, I will argue two hypotheses: 1) that an extensive favorable attitude of acceptance toward gender-neutral language does not imply extensi…
Debating translanguaging
In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussio…
Discourse analysis for social change
The aim of this essay is to propose some key challenges and problems in the field of language in society. In the current context of global crisis, we have the opportunity to design a research agenda for an uncertain future from a dark present. But there is no reason why that agenda should also be uncertain and dark. An agenda thus established can start from three aspects that I explore in this article: the recognition and appreciation of multiple…
From the language part of work to the languages of academia
The aim of this paper is to offer a critical reading of J. Boutet's work from my position as an Argentine linguist who has been working for many years in interdisciplinary teams, including labor scholars and trade unionists. This position motivated the reading I propose here on three aspects of Boutet's work in relation to language: (1) the concept of "language part of work" and its contribution to interdisciplinary dialogue in labor studies; (2)…
Discourse
This overview examines discourse studies as a fundamental area within applied linguistics, exploring how language shapes and is shaped by social life, power relations, and ideological systems. It does so acknowledging the field's internal diversity across theoretical traditions, geographic contexts, and analytical practices. The entry traces the conceptual diversity of “discourse”—from language in use to systemic frameworks governing meaning prod…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Cultural and political discourse analysis (5 works)