Abstract

CANE, Mariana. Five Presidents: A Single Crisis? : Topic Articulations and Ethos in Presidential Speeches of Late 2001 in Argentina. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.59-85. ISSN 1853-984X.

This paper aims to recompose the main diagnoses on the crisis in presidential speeches drawn by those political actors who were in front of the Argentine Executive in late 2001 -Fernando De la Rúa, Ramón Puerta, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Camaño y Eduardo Duhalde-, in order to answer: what role did those different diagnoses and ways of constructing a discursive image of themselves play in the dissimilar permanencies of those rulers in front of the Executive? For it, we track in the proposed corpus the main argumentative topoï -that supported those ways of constructing the crisis- and the discursive ethé projected for each speaker. Our working hypothesis is that the way in which Rodríguez Saá y Duhalde diagnosed the crisis and projected -during their first days in office- their leadership as presidents contributed to their dissimilar performances. In the case of Rodríguez Saá, that helped their peers to take away their endorsement and to entail his way out of presidency just a week after having taken office; in the case of Duhalde, that permitted him to forge alliances with his peers and to build trust on citizenry, so as to be able to correct, at least in part, the weak legitimacy of origin of his government.

Keywords : Argentine crisis of 2001; Political discourses; Ethos; Topoï.

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