Linguistic marks in the written press of Mexico as discursive strategies to evade responsibility when reporting on drug trafficking

Abstract

The presence of drug trafficking in Michoacán has been the focus of attention of the national and international media agenda, however, reporting on the issue is a complicated task due to the responsibility of the voices reproduced in the journalistic enunciation; so the reporters through the practice have developed specific formulas to not commit to the truth of what is stated in the news. Such is the case of the use of adverbs as strategic evidential marks to refer to the source of information when a journalistic construction is published on the presence of drug trafficking. The present investigation that focuses on the analysis of informative notes extracted from three Michoacán newspapers also raises the existence of other linguistic marks, in addition to adverbs, that can cover the characteristics of an evidential as a marker within an enunciation such as the case of presumed and supposed.

Keywords

• narcotráfico, adverbios, evidenciales, enunciación, prensa