Abstract

HERNANDEZ RUIZ, Laura. Representaciones sociales del "último discurso" del suicida. Península [online]. 2012, vol.7, n.2, pp.27-43. ISSN 1870-5766.

This study is part of a research about suicide perceptions in Chichí Suárez. Yucatán is registered as one of the states with the highest rates of suicide in the Mexican Republic. People in this town identify the involuntary physiological events of the corpse and interpret them as the "suicide's final discourse", attributing communicative powers to it. They construct meanings with the schemes reported, which are permeated by the interpreter-sender's intentionality. Their social representation refers to the suicide's last communication by means of a body in transformation. This explains why it uses certain non-verbal skills to interact. This work emphasizes the use of the language to identify perception and social representations of the community, in order to make the categorization according to the findings.

Keywords : perception, communication; suicide; social representation.