This article analyzes the naming strategies used by politicians in the Peruvian media during the coverage of two corruption cases in which the reputation of two presidents of the Republic was at stake. Based on the work of Theodoor van Leeuwen (1996), we call naming strategies the various ways in which politicians named people and facts in order to control meanings and build versions according to their interests. As an analytical tool, we have used Van Leeuwen’s (1996) model of Representation of Social Actors, from the perspective of Critical Analysis of Discourse, which understands language as a socially and historically situated practice (Fairclough, 1992 and 2003). The results of the analysis show that names can be powerful political weapons; in this sense, it should be understood that naming practices are not merely an exercise in linguistic labeling, but social practices that cons...

This article explores the relation between the love life of the militants of the Peruvian Communist Party-Shining Path (PCP-SL, acronym in Spanish), the terrorist organization with the greatest impact in the history of Peru, and the political life of this party in the context of the armed struggle that began in the 1980's. The following questions are posed: how relevant was the love life of the PCP-SL militants for the political work of the party; how were the intimate and public dimensions articulated in the context of the armed struggle; did the PCP-SL have a discourse or rhetoric on love and couple relationships; and what characterized this speech? Based on the analysis of the essay Love in Communist Society (1973 [1921]) by the Marxist politician Alejandra Kollontai and the review of testimonies of former Shining Path militants, I conclude that the intimate life of PCP-SL members was...

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En: Hernández, W. (Ed.), Violencias contra las mujeres : la necesidad de un doble plural (pp. 237-268). Lima: GRADE y PNUD.