Unpublished Paper
Voices of the Kidnapped Munoz ICA 2017.pdf
(2017)
Abstract
Abstract. This essay analyzes a message broadcast in 2002 on a Colombian radio program entitled Las Voces del Secuestro (The voices of the kidnapped). This message, and others like it, show well-researched features of recipient design. It further illustrates enactment of a unique system of meaning between the speaker, a wife whose husband is currently held hostage by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (las FARC). her husband, and their network of family and friendships. Its placement within this radio program, and its performance of steps that pay homage to the sacred object of potential release of the hostages, provided a communal ritual that united Colombians during a time when kidnapping was a shared cultural tragedy. Microdetails of recipient design, when seen through lenses of relational codes and communal ritual, give texts like this one the power both to connect specific loved ones, and to offer hope to a terrified nation.
Keywords
- ethnography,
- Colombia,
- recipient design,
- Victor Turner,
- communal ritual,
- cultural meaning
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer July 30, 2017
Comments
Presented at International Pragmatics Association, Belfast, July 2017
Citation Information
Kristine L. Munoz. "Voices of the Kidnapped Munoz ICA 2017.pdf" (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kristine_munoz/83/