Language, Narrative, and Symbolic Confrontation
The Narrative Dispute on X About the Teuchitlán, Jalisco
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Narrative, political language, social media, framingAbstract
This paper analyzes the symbolic dimension of language in the narrative dispute between political actors and citizens, focusing on the case of the discovery in the Teuchitlán ranch, Jalisco. Based on a theoretical review of language as a field of power and the digital sphere as a space for narrative resignification, the article discusses the discursive mechanisms operating on X (previously Twitter) during moments of public crisis. It argues that the event triggers not only a dispute over truth, but also over the symbolic frameworks through which collective meaning is constructed. This reflection contributes to the study of language as a tool of symbolic struggle in polarized digital environments. The analysis confirms that, in scenarios of public crisis, institutional narratives lose centrality to citizen discourses that reframe the event through emotion, denunciation, and social memory. It concludes that X operates as a space of symbolic confrontation where regimes of truth are negotiated and memory is constructed in real time.
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