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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension (1983)
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@MISC{Dijk83strategiesof,
author = {Teun A. Van Dijk and Walter Kintsch},
title = {Strategies of Discourse Comprehension},
year = {1983}
}
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Abstract
El Salvador, Guatemala is a, study in black and white. On the left is a collection of extreme Marxist-Leninist groups led by what one diplomat calls “a pretty faceless bunch of people.’ ’ On the right is an entrenched elite that has dominated Central America’s most populous country since a CIA-backed coup deposed the reformist government of Col. Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954. Moderates of the political center. embattled but alive in E1 Salvador, have virtually disappeared in Guatemala-joining more than 30.000 victims of terror over the last tifteen vears. “The situation in Guatemala is much more serious than in EI Salvador, ” declares one Latin American diplomat. “The oligarchy is that much more reactionary. and the choices are far fewer. “ ‘Zero’: The Guatemalan oligarchs hated Jimmy Carter for cutting off U.S. military aid in 1977 to protest human-rights abuses-and the right-wingers hired marimba bands and set off firecrackers on the night Ronald Reagan was elected. They considered Reagan an ideological kinsman and believed they had a special
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discourse comprehension ideological kinsman night ronald reagan last tifteen vears e1 salvador latin american diplomat jacobo arbenz guzm faceless bunch central america ei salvador u.s. military aid marimba band extreme marxist-leninist group populous country reformist government el salvador political center entrenched elite cia-backed coup jimmy carter
