University of Chile

This course discusses the main applications of linguistics in the analysis of the language in legal documents, language used in legal contexts, and language produced by those familiar with the field in the forensic institutional context. It explores the theoretical-methodological problems in the linguistic analysis of forensic text as well as the unequal distribution of power in the forensic institutional context.

The course offers a study of some of the forms of violence that can be found in the post-dictatorship Chilean narrative. It discusses different expressions of social violence and its impact on the discourse of ideas in Chilean society. This course explores post-dictatorship Chilean novels which offer a vision of the world in which some form of violence is also included.

This course provides a study of Latin American films from the late nineteenth century to the present day and reflects on various political, social, and cultural scenarios of the countries in which these films are set. It critically analyzes the thematic and formal proposals of the films, as well as the aesthetic concepts used in the visual imagery associated with Latin America. The course examines the common problems and historical moments that were projected through film in silent cinema, new cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, and finally, in contemporary works.

The course focuses on five prominent Chilean authors who write fiction based on historical Chilean women. It explores the relationship between literature and historical reality, with writers assuming very different ways of understanding that relationship. Topics include: the new historical novel in Chilean literature; representation of the female historical subject in the current Chilean novel; the concepts of popular consciousness, memory, and transtextuality; the relationship between history and memory.