Las representaciones sociales desde una perspectiva discursiva

Abstract

Social representations: a discourse analysis proposal. The purpose of this text is to present some reflexions on the discursive aspect of social representations, that is on knowledge that has been socially constructed, as well as on the strong connection between cognition and communication, mental and linguistic operations, information and meaning. This approach focusses more on the process of the construction of representations, their transformation movements and their relation to the social practices of groups, than on the mere identification of contents. Taking as a starting point some of Jean-Blaise Grize’s proposal regarding the relationship between natural logic and social representations, it is argued that natural logic can provide a method for analyzing the form and content of representations. The concept of thêmata is also used in order to show the connection between social cognition and between mental and linguistic operations.