The affective construction of others' experience: A cross-cultural comparison of youth's responses to a film about the Uruguayan dictatorship

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dc.contributor.authorAchugar, Mariana
dc.contributor.authorBaeza Duffy, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:04:35Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:04:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractPopular culture connects us to people who have other histories and cultures. This qualitative study aims to analyze how the representation of others' suffering in films affects youths' empathy towards others different from them in terms of generation and cultural distance. We explore how empathy is expressed as semiotic processes of feelings and meanings in a contrastive cross-cultural case study. Using data collected from two college level language classrooms in two different countries (Uruguay and Chile) from two groups (one of regular university students and one of study abroad students), we contrast youths' responses to a film about violations of human rights during the Uruguayan military dictatorship (Migas de Pan, 2016). The film's representation of the violation of human rights experienced by young people during the dictatorship enables audiences to identify with the protagonist in spite of the temporal and cultural distance that separates them. Our findings suggest that the semiotic construction of feelings distinguishes the degree and intensity of youths' understanding of others' experiences. The conclusion discusses how personal trajectories and sociocultural identities influence the meaning making process of past experiences. Finally, we explore possible educational implications of these findings. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.linged.2021.100993
dc.identifier.eissn1873-1864
dc.identifier.issn0898-5898
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2021.100993
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/94100
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000718118500002
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaLinguistics and education
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectFeelings
dc.subjectMeaning-making
dc.subjectEmpathy
dc.subjectCross-cultural comparison
dc.subjectRecent past
dc.subjectFilms and education in human rights
dc.titleThe affective construction of others' experience: A cross-cultural comparison of youth's responses to a film about the Uruguayan dictatorship
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen66
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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