Representaciones sociales del “último discurso” del suicida

Abstract

This study is part of a research about suicide perceptions in ChichíSuárez. Yucatán is registered as one of the states with the highest rates ofsuicide in the Mexican Republic.People in this town identify the involuntary physiological events ofthe corpse and interpret them as the “suicide’s final discourse”, attributingcommunicative powers to it. They construct meanings withthe schemes reported, which are permeated by the interpreter-sender’sintentionality. Their social representation refers to the suicide’s lastcommunication by means of a body in transformation. This explainswhy it uses certain non-verbal skills to interact.This work emphasizes the use of the language to identify perceptionand social representations of the community, in order to make the categorizationaccording to the findings