Relaciones político-económicas entre México y Canadá

Versiones periodísticas a comienzos del sexenio de Fox

Abstract

Political-economic relations between Mexico and Canada. As part of our ongoing research on the image of the other in the national press of Mexico and Canada, in this paper we look at the configuration of political and economic ideologies as reflected in the press on the occasion of Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox’s official visit to Ottawa in August, 2000. To understand how the different ideologies present interact, we apply Antonio Gramsci’s concept of “ideological complex”, as developed in discursive terms by Hodge and Kress, as well as the Bakhtinian notion of “enunciative scene”, developed as an analytical concept by Fonte. Through specific textual readings, we trace a profile of the different positions taken by Mexican and Canadian newspapers in the three languages in question. We study the points of conflict and convergence between the various speakers involved (above all Fox and Chrétien), and how certain key concepts like “poverty” are understood in very different ways in each country. Through analysis of press discourse we illustrate how a nationalist ideology confronts one of globalization, and we demonstrate the pertinence of detailed analysis of ideological expression pervading every level of language.