La producción discursiva en torno al matrimonio homosexual: una lucha de resistencia

Abstract

This article analyzes the journalistic discourse regarding the approval of homosexual marriage in Mexico City. In November 2009, when one of the Assembly members proposed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, debate on the issue elicited speeches for and against from columnists, delegates, senators and representatives of the Mexican Church. The study was conducted on three Mexican national newspapers: La Jornada, (107, 666), La Prensa (244.299) and the weekly Desde la fe (625,000), whose print runs place them ahead of other newspapers. The time frame of the study was from December 2009, when the bill was proposed to January 2010. The law went into effect in March 2010. The study comprises 65 press releases. The period under analysis consists of 65 news items, 9 editorials, 9 articles, 2 columns, 3 press releases, 2 essays and 2 testimonials. The corpus was selected by journalistic genre, publication date, title, section, page, subject of discourse (Robin, 1973, Foucault, 1970). The analysis uses the theoretical and methodological contributions of Teun Van Dijk (2003) since discourse is a fundamental dimension of the social-cultural and practical phenomena that constitute a role identity. Moreover, discourse articulates the process of production, circulation and reception, with the text being the product (Haidar, 2006).