Ciudadanos: The Myth of Neutrality Articles
Overview
published in
- SEMIOTICA Journal
publication date
- October 2018
start page
- 489
end page
- 505
issue
- 225
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0037-1998
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1613-3692
abstract
- Ciudadanos is a new Spanish political party that, in the last two years, has won a position as an important force in Parliament. Among the distinctive characteristics of its discourse, the use of the neutral stands out, which the party uses to distance itself from old-style politics. This article analyzes the discursive strategy of Ciudadanos from its founding up through the present day, and uncovers the operations of ideological camouflage that it uses to construct its apparent neutrality. In this way, the article seeks to recover the spirit of the Barthesian mythological analyses, dedicated to unmasking contemporary myths
Classification
keywords
- ciudadanos; politics; neutral; mythology; presentism