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Table 24.2 ‘Who benefits from this situation?’
EL SALVADOR HONDURAS
WORD TF PF Z WORD TF PF Z
them/they 244 92 15 transnationals 40 29 16
rich people 56 34 13 businesses 93 43 12
transnationals 21 19 13 owners 37 23 10
owners 26 18 9 them/they 205 66 9
big 67 31 8 profits 17 12 7
families 42 23 8 allowances 22 13 6
businesses 64 29 7 taxes 18 12 6
ministry 45 22 7 banks 17 10 5
capitalists 17 12 6 maquilas 58 22 5
oligarchy 11 9 6 Supreme Court 18 10 5
public servants 19 12 6 funds 18 9 4
bank 16 10 5 (they) should 10 7 4
business people 19 11 5 big 73 23 4
controls 13 9 5 (they) pay 26 11 4
banks 15 10 5 business people 34 14 4
dollar 16 9 4 control 12 7 4
same 32 14 4 work 218 52 4
colonies 23 11 4 justice 74 21 3
class 29 14 4 wants 33 11 3
pay 19 10 4 public servants 14 7 3
financial 10 7 4 major 16 8 3
works 10 7 4 (they) sell 11 6 3
(they) control 10 7 4 same ones 54 17 3
work-related 17 8 3 maquila 53 17 3
wealth 18 8 3 laws 36 13 3
capital 17 8 3 money 37 12 3
dollars 43 14 3 workforce 12 6 3
(they) want 17 8 3
Salvadorians 41 15 3
few 22 9 3
millions 25 11 3
trade 22 9 3
exploitation 20 9 3
maquila 20 9 3
taxes 29 12 3
TF: Total Frequency – number of times a given word appears in the activists’ discourse as a whole;
PF: Partial Frequency – number of times a given word is used by activists to respond to a specific question;
Z: Level of significance of the difference between the expected partial frequency and the observed partial frequency

maquila’s actors against their own ‘foreign’ ‘politicians’, ‘president’, ‘state’, etc.), as we
standards: see in Table 24.3. While it was not expected
that this question would elicit radical terms
... the owners of the maquilas, the transnationals
that, with our work, obtain more profits than they such as ‘revolution’ or ‘class struggle’, it
would in their countries, because over there they is still remarkable to find an extensive
have to do what is fair, what the law says (Case vocabulary related to an essentially prag-
H10. Female participant in a peasant movement in matic perspective: ‘measure’, ‘plan’, ‘policy’,
Honduras).
‘problem’, ‘project’, ‘proposition’, ‘solu-
It is the third question (‘What should be done tion’, ‘solve’, ‘to talk’, ‘to think’, ‘to try’, etc.
in order to put the country on the right track?’) A key distinctive notion in the social
that brings the respondents in our sample to activists’ discourse is that of ‘change’, which
focus on the political realm (‘government’, appears in several forms (i.e., the verb and