Language and Communication
Volume 69, 2019, Pages 1-10

Voices from the outside: The instrumentality of radio messages in Colombian kidnappings (Article)

Leonard S.P.
  • a Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 3-1 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya St, Moscow, 123432, Russian Federation

Abstract

What was the impact of one-way radio messages aimed at hostages kidnapped by the FARC and held captive in the Colombian jungle? Messages were read out every Saturday night (reception in the Colombian jungle is best between 01:00am and 04:00am) for 22 years. Here, radio animated emotional registers of lived experience as one-way radio messages intensified novel forms of imagination for both speaker, hearer and the ‘community’ of other hearers, in this case thousands of hostages dotted around the jungle. This article examines the linguistic instrumentality of the radio voice. By analysing the Voces del Secuestro messages, it is shown how a phenomenological listening of the radio voice gave hope in times of anguish. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd

Author Keywords

Phenomenology Colombia Voice Inner speech Radio

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85067556427&doi=10.1016%2fj.langcom.2019.04.005&partnerID=40&md5=414614b1657d08cfa6bcdb7a95ea9bf8
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2019.04.005
ISSN: 02715309
Original Language: English