The Role of Secondary Orality in the Construction of Factual Discourses about Colombian Corruption

<p>This dissertation examines the role of secondary orality in the construction of factual discourses about Colombian corruption. By performing a rhetorical analysis of the Colombian radio program Hora 20, I analyze how factual discourses about Colombian corruption are constructed through radio and, specifically, through secondary orality. After analyzing thirteen radio episodes on corruption, I claim that secondary orality leads to a highly polysemic understanding of corruption in which different approaches to this phenomenon correspond with particular terministic screens. The invitational nature of secondary orality makes possible the co-existence of various terministic screens in which different factual discourses of corruption are represented through language. These different factual discourses on corruption emerge in the context of what I call dialogic rhetoric. Beyond the realm of discourse, this polysemy of corruption has material consequences resulting on what I called the normalization of corruption. </p><p>Chapter 1 of this dissertation offers a description of radio and corruption in Colombia. Chapter 2 presents a review of the literature produced on radio; examines the concepts of orality and secondary orality; and discusses the problem of factuality and its related terms, such as rhetoric and symbolic efficacy. Chapter 3 discusses cluster analysis and explains how I used this method to rhetorically analyze the radio program Hora 20. </p><p>Chapter 4 describes the six clusters of terms that radio speakers of Hora 20 use when discussing issues of Colombian corruption about three broad contexts: corruption as a long term Colombian problem, agricultural corruption, and health corruption. It also analyzes the different rhetorical strategies that speakers employ to make factual their own accounts on corruption.</p><p>Chapter 5 discusses how the language of radio influences the way in which radio speakers communicate about corruption and, specifically, how secondary orality works in radio. In this chapter I suggest three main levels -emphatic, grammatical, and dialogic- through which we can start to understand the language of the secondary orality of radio. </p><p>Finally, Chapter 6 offers a more detailed connection between chapters 4 and 5, and, therefore, between radio representations of corruption and secondary orality. It also summarizes how this dissertation advances our understanding on corruption, radio, and cluster analysis. Lastly, it suggests some directions for future research.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication Studies (Communication)

Grantor dc:publisher

Ohio University

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Angel Botero, Adriana M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bates, Benjamin

• Communication
• Secondary orality
• radio
• Colombian corruption
• Rhetoric
• Dialogue
• Cluster analysis
• Factual discourses
• Dialogic rhetoric

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1353959082

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:ohiou1353959082