ABSTRACT
It is my intention to provide the temporality of my discourse as it unfolds in time from one place to another. Through spoken and unspoken communication, discourse enacts our identities and levels of emancipation and freedom. However, I contend that freedom and identity are value dependent and society driven. Whether I identify myself as free or not is contingent upon how society understands freedom and how others perceive me. In all pilgrimages, we begin by going back to our roots. For me, it begins in Argentina, where the formative years of my discourse were shaped. Speaking of discourse and recognizing language as an object of power and inequality, Blommaert (2009) asserts that an “analysis should not start . . . as soon as people open their mouths. It should have started long before that” (p. 67). I traveled my early journey during the midst of a military dictatorship, where schooling was used as a mechanism to shape the minds of the youth into accepting military domination. It is important for me to address this history that accounts for the development of my discourse. I endeavor to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of my discourse, entextualizing1 it in a dialogical dialectic of becoming.
