Chile a country of sports players: discursive construction during the government Sebastián Piñera

Authors

  • Rodrigo Soto Lagos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/alesde.v3i1.29809

Keywords:

Sport, Discourse Analysis, Metaphors

Abstract

Nowadays, the public speeches of the authorities and the path of the public policies include sports as a tool to reach public objectives. In the Chilean case, the President Sebastian Piñera has proposed to turn Chile into a “country of sports players”, speech declared in his government proposal and in many other public situations. Given the importance of this speech, the proposal is to understand how this “country of sports players” is built from the speech and what this implies. The present research approaches this topic from the discourse analysis perspective, focusing in the metaphors that have been used to build this country. The outcomes show a strong relation between the figure of the sport player and the ideal citizen who has a moral with strong values of entrepreneurship and competition.  

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Published

2013-07-28

How to Cite

Soto Lagos, R. (2013). Chile a country of sports players: discursive construction during the government Sebastián Piñera. The Journal of the Latin American Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport (ALESDE), 3(1), 20–38. https://doi.org/10.5380/alesde.v3i1.29809

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Original Papers

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