Capturing in words what a symbol symbolizes? Challenges for studying symbolic representation from a discursive approach

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dc.contributor.authorLombardo, Emanuela
dc.contributor.authorMeier, Petra
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-17T22:11:49Z
dc.date.available2023-06-17T22:11:49Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-22
dc.description.abstractStudying symbolic representation is not only relevant, but also challenging. Hanna Pitkin [1967. The Concept of Representation. CA: University of California Press, 97] already warned us that “[w]e can never exhaust, never quite capture in words, the totality of what a symbol symbolizes: suggests, evokes, implies.” We will discuss the opportunities and challenges we encountered in our study of symbolic representation from a discursive politics approach, where we took political discourse as the agent. A discursive approach has allowed us to study symbolic representation as a dimension of representation per se, and to unpack the relation between agent and principal in symbolic representation by revealing the activity of constructing meanings and ascribing them to the principal. Yet, a number of questions arise: what makes a symbol a symbol and what does this mean for a discursive approach to symbols? What makes symbolic representation different from substantive representation when the agent is of a discursive nature? And what methodological challenges does the broadening of the agent in symbolic representation to discourse include?.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Ciencia Política y de la Administración
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/45200
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/21565503.2017.1321994
dc.identifier.issn2156-5503
dc.identifier.officialurlhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2017.1321994
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18203
dc.issue.number3
dc.journal.titlePolitics, Groups, and Identities
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final487
dc.page.initial482
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rights.accessRightsrestricted access
dc.subject.keywordPolitical representation
dc.subject.keywordSymbolic representation
dc.subject.keywordDiscursive approach
dc.subject.keywordFraming
dc.subject.keywordMethodology
dc.subject.ucmDerechos humanos
dc.subject.ucmTeorías políticas
dc.subject.unesco5906.01 Derechos Humanos
dc.subject.unesco5908 Teoría Política
dc.titleCapturing in words what a symbol symbolizes? Challenges for studying symbolic representation from a discursive approach
dc.typejournal article
dc.volume.number5
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