Mariana Achugar
Biographic Data
| ID | 522335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariana Achugar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariana |
| FAMILY NAME | Achugar |
| SIGNATURE | ACHUGAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1197-8170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Information and participation in the energy transition
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.How are energy transitions being experienced in the territory? This article reports the results of a survey carried out in the area of influence of the Tambor Project for green hydrogen production in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The work was carried out in response to a demand from the community to document the information and opportunities for participation that the population…
Representaciones del acoso sexual
En este trabajo se investiga cómo las representaciones del acoso sexual en un programa de televisión uruguaya brindan una idea de algunas de las formas en que construimos material e idealmente las relaciones sociales basadas en diferencias sexogenéricas, en este momento, en un país latinoamericano donde el femicidio y la violencia de género constituyen un problema social reconocido política y académicamente. El corpus proviene de un programa de d…
Narratives and responsibility in media framings of the (1973–1985) Uruguayan dictatorship
The Discourse of History
Taking a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective, this book explores how language builds our knowledge about the past and gives value to historical events, thereby shaping contemporary culture. It brings together cutting-edge research from an international team of scholars to provide a detailed study of texts from three different world languages (English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese) – revealing how the discourse of history is constructed in…
How Do Journalists Read? Reading Practices and Beliefs of Journalism Professionals
Patriarchal backlash
The article investigates the tensions between feminist conceptualizations of sexual violence and the persistence of patriarchal discourses that challenge it resulting in a justification of violence and misogynistic representations in a Uruguayan TV program. We argue that the return of conservative discourses that question sexual harassment accusations, reinstate gender differences, and gender inequality by installing a new normativity and natural…
Fifty Years of Secrecy
This article explores the long duration of posttransitional authoritarian discourses of "national security" in Uruguay, in the five decades since the coup that led to a State terrorist regime. We posit that the current deployment of Cold war era discourses justifying state terrorism constitute foundational master tools that enable modern-day military and alt-right autocrats to conceal human rights violations and appropriate the liberal human righ…
Documenting language and content integrated learning
In this paper, we explore how advanced college students use the past history and experiences of others to understand the present while learning a foreign language through a content-integrated curriculum. To assess student learning we operationalize Norris (2006. “The Why (and How) of Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in College Foreign Language Programs.” The Modern Language Journal 90 (4): 576–583) learning outcomes model (content, skills and …
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures
This paper analyzes the piropo in Spanish discourse as a speech event and as cognitive metaphor. This form of indirect speech act represents a Spanish discourse tradition that is still present in today’s discourse practices of Spanish-speaking cultures. These piropos are seen as reflections in language of the traditional roles of men and women in Spanish speaking cultures. The roles of men and women as depicted in the analysis of piropos shows a …
The affective construction of others’ experience
Rethinking social memory through Vygotsky and Halliday
This paper explores social memory as a dynamic, agentive and semiotically mediated process drawing on some key principles from Vygotsky’s and Halliday’s work. These authors’ basic principles are defined and later applied to the analysis of the transmission of contested memories of the recent past in Uruguay. The paper concludes by reflecting on how this dialectical, historical and semiotic approach to investigating complex phenomena provide a uni…
Comprender prácticas discursivas racistas desde el Sur Global
La descolonización de CDA en América Latina implica un cambio epistemológico, así como la profundización del conocimiento sobre la región. Desde el Sur Global y desde una posición no eurocéntrica, el análisis del discurso abre oportunidades para construir conocimiento e intervenir en la vida social simultáneamente. En este artículo, exploro cómo la construcción del conocimiento en los estudios críticos del discurso en América Latina puede contrib…
Introduction
Discursive Processes of Intergenerational Transmission of Recent History
Debates about how to remember politically contested or painful pasts exist throughout the world. As with the case of the Holocaust in Europe and Apartheid in South Africa, South American countries are
Re/constructing the past
Investigating how contested periods are remembered by younger generations allows us to better understand the contents that are passed on as well as the discursive processes through which intergenerational transmission occurs. This article explores the intersections of collective and personal memory. We investigate what Uruguayan teenagers know about the dictatorship (1973–1985) and what discourses come into play in shaping these views. The analys…
Power and place
This paper explores the role of Spanish in an academic community in Southwest Texas in order to demonstrate how power, history and place affect linguistic attitudes. The changing status of Spanish from being an index of low wage paying jobs to being a marker of membership in an exclusive academic community serves as a case to investigate how power relations and history interact to shape linguistic attitudes of individuals and groups. Members of t…
Designing Environments for Teaching and Learning History in Multilingual Contexts
Educational interventions designed to serve the needs of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools are developed within a fractured social context. Recent language and immigration policy debates in the U.S. have focused on the importance of English in attaining socio-economic success. On the other hand, research in applied linguistics has shown that immigrants who become English monolingual do not fare better than their counterparts…
In whatever language people feel comfortable”
This article explores how language ideologies about monolingualism and bilingualism are reproduced and challenged by the media in a Southwestern border community in the United States. We investigate the particular ways in which these language ideologies are constructed and reconstructed through lexicogrammatical and discursive choices that evaluate and position languages and their users. Through an appraisal analysis (Martin and White, The langua…
Constructing the past and constructing themselves
Institutional identity and social memory are used to construct legitimate images of self and justify past actions. The Uruguayan military as an institution was interested in constructing its own memory of the controversial period of the dictatorship to establish their new identity as political actors and to respond to outside critiques. As a result, the institution produced a wealth of documents to explain and justify its actions before holding p…
Constructing a Bilingual Professional Identity in a Graduate Classroom
This article explores the construction of a bilingual professional identity in a bilingual creative-writing graduate program in southwest Texas by analyzing a classroom event and the participants' interpretation of it. In bilingual classrooms the resources available to construct professional identities include a large repertoire of linguistic practices and cultural frames. This context provides a space to explore how language, power, and identity…
Counter-hegemonic language practices and ideologies
This article examines how local norms for Spanish use in a multilingual Southwest Texas border setting respond to and contest dominant monolingual ideologies. The analysis focuses on notions of what languages are legitimate for use in the public sphere in this community and on the benefits of engaging in particular communicative practices. The corpus analyzed comes from interviews with key members of the university (president, program director, p…
Between remembering and forgetting
This article investigates the Uruguayan military's argumentative narrative about the last dictatorship (1973—85) in order to understand how violations of human rights are explained and justified. Through a historical perspective the investigation traces the changes and permanence of certain representational and discursive practices that construct the memory of the period. The analysis shows how the military's argumentative narrative about the dic…
Writers on the Borderlands
In this article I report on a unique tertiary level bilingual graduate program in Southwest Texas where the content as well as the form of implementation are based on an additive model of bilingualism. The analysis focuses on how bilingualism and bilingual professional identity are conceptualized by the participants in this community of practice relating the insiders' views to the sociohistorical and political landscape where the program is devel…
The Events and Actors of 11 September 2001 As Seen from Uruguay
The aim of this article is to identify some of the discursive properties of the Uruguayan media coverage of the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath. The specific focus is on the construction of inand out-group identity through representation of the events and its participants. In addition, the article explores how local political agendas are advanced by arguments that connect these events to local struggles/issues. The analysis is fro…
The Grammar of History
In K-12 contexts, the teaching of English language learners (ELLs) has been greatly influenced by the theory and practice of content-based instruction (CBI). A focus on content can help students achieve grade-level standards in school subjects while they develop English proficiency, but CBI practices have focused primarily on vocabulary and the use of graphic organizers along with cooperative learning activities. This article reports the results …
Re/constructing the past
Investigating how contested periods are remembered by younger generations allows us to better understand the contents that are passed on as well as the discursive processes through which intergenerational transmission occurs. This article explores the intersections of collective and personal memory. We investigate what Uruguayan teenagers know about the dictatorship (1973–1985) and what discourses come into play in shaping these views. The analys…
Between remembering and forgetting
This article investigates the Uruguayan military's argumentative narrative about the last dictatorship (1973—85) in order to understand how violations of human rights are explained and justified. Through a historical perspective the investigation traces the changes and permanence of certain representational and discursive practices that construct the memory of the period. The analysis shows how the military's argumentative narrative about the dic…
The Grammar of History
In K-12 contexts, the teaching of English language learners (ELLs) has been greatly influenced by the theory and practice of content-based instruction (CBI). A focus on content can help students achieve grade-level standards in school subjects while they develop English proficiency, but CBI practices have focused primarily on vocabulary and the use of graphic organizers along with cooperative learning activities. This article reports the results …
The Events and Actors of 11 September 2001 As Seen from Uruguay
The aim of this article is to identify some of the discursive properties of the Uruguayan media coverage of the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath. The specific focus is on the construction of inand out-group identity through representation of the events and its participants. In addition, the article explores how local political agendas are advanced by arguments that connect these events to local struggles/issues. The analysis is fro…
Constructing the past and constructing themselves
Institutional identity and social memory are used to construct legitimate images of self and justify past actions. The Uruguayan military as an institution was interested in constructing its own memory of the controversial period of the dictatorship to establish their new identity as political actors and to respond to outside critiques. As a result, the institution produced a wealth of documents to explain and justify its actions before holding p…
Fifty Years of Secrecy
This article explores the long duration of posttransitional authoritarian discourses of "national security" in Uruguay, in the five decades since the coup that led to a State terrorist regime. We posit that the current deployment of Cold war era discourses justifying state terrorism constitute foundational master tools that enable modern-day military and alt-right autocrats to conceal human rights violations and appropriate the liberal human righ…
Comprender prácticas discursivas racistas desde el Sur Global
La descolonización de CDA en América Latina implica un cambio epistemológico, así como la profundización del conocimiento sobre la región. Desde el Sur Global y desde una posición no eurocéntrica, el análisis del discurso abre oportunidades para construir conocimiento e intervenir en la vida social simultáneamente. En este artículo, exploro cómo la construcción del conocimiento en los estudios críticos del discurso en América Latina puede contrib…
Information and participation in the energy transition
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.How are energy transitions being experienced in the territory? This article reports the results of a survey carried out in the area of influence of the Tambor Project for green hydrogen production in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The work was carried out in response to a demand from the community to document the information and opportunities for participation that the population…
Patriarchal backlash
The article investigates the tensions between feminist conceptualizations of sexual violence and the persistence of patriarchal discourses that challenge it resulting in a justification of violence and misogynistic representations in a Uruguayan TV program. We argue that the return of conservative discourses that question sexual harassment accusations, reinstate gender differences, and gender inequality by installing a new normativity and natural…
Constructing a Bilingual Professional Identity in a Graduate Classroom
This article explores the construction of a bilingual professional identity in a bilingual creative-writing graduate program in southwest Texas by analyzing a classroom event and the participants' interpretation of it. In bilingual classrooms the resources available to construct professional identities include a large repertoire of linguistic practices and cultural frames. This context provides a space to explore how language, power, and identity…
Writers on the Borderlands
In this article I report on a unique tertiary level bilingual graduate program in Southwest Texas where the content as well as the form of implementation are based on an additive model of bilingualism. The analysis focuses on how bilingualism and bilingual professional identity are conceptualized by the participants in this community of practice relating the insiders' views to the sociohistorical and political landscape where the program is devel…
The Events and Actors of 11 September 2001 As Seen from Uruguay
The aim of this article is to identify some of the discursive properties of the Uruguayan media coverage of the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath. The specific focus is on the construction of inand out-group identity through representation of the events and its participants. In addition, the article explores how local political agendas are advanced by arguments that connect these events to local struggles/issues. The analysis is fro…
The Grammar of History
In K-12 contexts, the teaching of English language learners (ELLs) has been greatly influenced by the theory and practice of content-based instruction (CBI). A focus on content can help students achieve grade-level standards in school subjects while they develop English proficiency, but CBI practices have focused primarily on vocabulary and the use of graphic organizers along with cooperative learning activities. This article reports the results …
Writers on the Borderlands
In this article I report on a unique tertiary level bilingual graduate program in Southwest Texas where the content as well as the form of implementation are based on an additive model of bilingualism. The analysis focuses on how bilingualism and bilingual professional identity are conceptualized by the participants in this community of practice relating the insiders' views to the sociohistorical and political landscape where the program is devel…
Between remembering and forgetting
This article investigates the Uruguayan military's argumentative narrative about the last dictatorship (1973—85) in order to understand how violations of human rights are explained and justified. Through a historical perspective the investigation traces the changes and permanence of certain representational and discursive practices that construct the memory of the period. The analysis shows how the military's argumentative narrative about the dic…
Counter-hegemonic language practices and ideologies
This article examines how local norms for Spanish use in a multilingual Southwest Texas border setting respond to and contest dominant monolingual ideologies. The analysis focuses on notions of what languages are legitimate for use in the public sphere in this community and on the benefits of engaging in particular communicative practices. The corpus analyzed comes from interviews with key members of the university (president, program director, p…
Power and place
This paper explores the role of Spanish in an academic community in Southwest Texas in order to demonstrate how power, history and place affect linguistic attitudes. The changing status of Spanish from being an index of low wage paying jobs to being a marker of membership in an exclusive academic community serves as a case to investigate how power relations and history interact to shape linguistic attitudes of individuals and groups. Members of t…
Designing Environments for Teaching and Learning History in Multilingual Contexts
Educational interventions designed to serve the needs of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools are developed within a fractured social context. Recent language and immigration policy debates in the U.S. have focused on the importance of English in attaining socio-economic success. On the other hand, research in applied linguistics has shown that immigrants who become English monolingual do not fare better than their counterparts…
In whatever language people feel comfortable”
This article explores how language ideologies about monolingualism and bilingualism are reproduced and challenged by the media in a Southwestern border community in the United States. We investigate the particular ways in which these language ideologies are constructed and reconstructed through lexicogrammatical and discursive choices that evaluate and position languages and their users. Through an appraisal analysis (Martin and White, The langua…
Constructing the past and constructing themselves
Institutional identity and social memory are used to construct legitimate images of self and justify past actions. The Uruguayan military as an institution was interested in constructing its own memory of the controversial period of the dictatorship to establish their new identity as political actors and to respond to outside critiques. As a result, the institution produced a wealth of documents to explain and justify its actions before holding p…
Constructing a Bilingual Professional Identity in a Graduate Classroom
This article explores the construction of a bilingual professional identity in a bilingual creative-writing graduate program in southwest Texas by analyzing a classroom event and the participants' interpretation of it. In bilingual classrooms the resources available to construct professional identities include a large repertoire of linguistic practices and cultural frames. This context provides a space to explore how language, power, and identity…
Re/constructing the past
Investigating how contested periods are remembered by younger generations allows us to better understand the contents that are passed on as well as the discursive processes through which intergenerational transmission occurs. This article explores the intersections of collective and personal memory. We investigate what Uruguayan teenagers know about the dictatorship (1973–1985) and what discourses come into play in shaping these views. The analys…
Discursive Processes of Intergenerational Transmission of Recent History
Debates about how to remember politically contested or painful pasts exist throughout the world. As with the case of the Holocaust in Europe and Apartheid in South Africa, South American countries are
Introduction
Rethinking social memory through Vygotsky and Halliday
This paper explores social memory as a dynamic, agentive and semiotically mediated process drawing on some key principles from Vygotsky’s and Halliday’s work. These authors’ basic principles are defined and later applied to the analysis of the transmission of contested memories of the recent past in Uruguay. The paper concludes by reflecting on how this dialectical, historical and semiotic approach to investigating complex phenomena provide a uni…
Comprender prácticas discursivas racistas desde el Sur Global
La descolonización de CDA en América Latina implica un cambio epistemológico, así como la profundización del conocimiento sobre la región. Desde el Sur Global y desde una posición no eurocéntrica, el análisis del discurso abre oportunidades para construir conocimiento e intervenir en la vida social simultáneamente. En este artículo, exploro cómo la construcción del conocimiento en los estudios críticos del discurso en América Latina puede contrib…
The affective construction of others’ experience
Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures
This paper analyzes the piropo in Spanish discourse as a speech event and as cognitive metaphor. This form of indirect speech act represents a Spanish discourse tradition that is still present in today’s discourse practices of Spanish-speaking cultures. These piropos are seen as reflections in language of the traditional roles of men and women in Spanish speaking cultures. The roles of men and women as depicted in the analysis of piropos shows a …
Documenting language and content integrated learning
In this paper, we explore how advanced college students use the past history and experiences of others to understand the present while learning a foreign language through a content-integrated curriculum. To assess student learning we operationalize Norris (2006. “The Why (and How) of Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in College Foreign Language Programs.” The Modern Language Journal 90 (4): 576–583) learning outcomes model (content, skills and …
The Discourse of History
Taking a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective, this book explores how language builds our knowledge about the past and gives value to historical events, thereby shaping contemporary culture. It brings together cutting-edge research from an international team of scholars to provide a detailed study of texts from three different world languages (English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese) – revealing how the discourse of history is constructed in…
How Do Journalists Read? Reading Practices and Beliefs of Journalism Professionals
Patriarchal backlash
The article investigates the tensions between feminist conceptualizations of sexual violence and the persistence of patriarchal discourses that challenge it resulting in a justification of violence and misogynistic representations in a Uruguayan TV program. We argue that the return of conservative discourses that question sexual harassment accusations, reinstate gender differences, and gender inequality by installing a new normativity and natural…
Fifty Years of Secrecy
This article explores the long duration of posttransitional authoritarian discourses of "national security" in Uruguay, in the five decades since the coup that led to a State terrorist regime. We posit that the current deployment of Cold war era discourses justifying state terrorism constitute foundational master tools that enable modern-day military and alt-right autocrats to conceal human rights violations and appropriate the liberal human righ…
Representaciones del acoso sexual
En este trabajo se investiga cómo las representaciones del acoso sexual en un programa de televisión uruguaya brindan una idea de algunas de las formas en que construimos material e idealmente las relaciones sociales basadas en diferencias sexogenéricas, en este momento, en un país latinoamericano donde el femicidio y la violencia de género constituyen un problema social reconocido política y académicamente. El corpus proviene de un programa de d…
Narratives and responsibility in media framings of the (1973–1985) Uruguayan dictatorship
Information and participation in the energy transition
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.How are energy transitions being experienced in the territory? This article reports the results of a survey carried out in the area of influence of the Tambor Project for green hydrogen production in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The work was carried out in response to a demand from the community to document the information and opportunities for participation that the population…
Sociology (20 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works)