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Irene Fonte Zarabozo
Through analysis of pres s coverage of a long student strike at Mexico’s National University in 1999, we look at a number of pragmatic and discursive characteristics of the communicative situation as it unfolded between the students and the university authorities, with respect to their controversy over dialogue. Dialogue came to be the major topic of a conflict characterized by the absence of dialogue. Through our analysis of the referential and social dimensions of this process of semiosis, we show how the discursive strategies of the two groups of speakers and parties to the conflict etaborate their own version of the concept of dialogue, and sustain the process of verbal confrontation.
