De “la conspiración de silencio” al reconocimiento de voces alternativas
Las violaciones a los derechos humanos en Chile según el Informe Valech (2003)
Keywords:
appraisal theory. voice. nominalization. systemic functional linguistics. human rights.Abstract
This paper examines certain patterns of voice realization in the National Report of the Political Prison and Torture Commission (also known as Valech Report), an official discourse produced by the Ministry of Interior in the process of investigation of the human rights violations committed by the military dictatorship (1973-1990). From the perspective of the Appraisal Theory, which is understood as a comprehensive and systematic reorganization of the lexicogrammatical resources used to value social experiences, the article shows that the authors of the Valech Report build a heteroglossic discourse, in which they include in an inscribed manner a multiplicity of voices implicated in the torture and political prison events. The paper also demonstrates that the authors draw on resources of extra-vocalization and intra-vocalization, which along with the presence of nominalizations, instantiate in different degrees alternative positions in the discourse.
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