ABSTRACT

This article deals with the legend of ‘The lady ghost’ connected with the supernatural apparition of a young woman in Argentinean graveyards. This legend, similar to other ones which can be found in different parts of the world, presents an interweaving with historic events, such as the tragic decease of real Argentinian women, whose funeral monuments attract dark tourism. Some of these monuments are placed in the Recoleta cemetery, which can be considered as a cultural landscape of Buenos Aires city. Such funeral monuments are part of touristic itineraries that offer ways of exploring how different societies deal with emotional issues such as early deaths discourse analysis provides methodological guidelines to analyse the discursive structure of the legends, whose metaphoric symbols serve as argumentative strategies to convince the audience about the verisimilitude of the narrative discourse, connected with a ‘rhetoric of believing’. This approach leads us to conclude that narratives whose protagonists are haunting girls express both intimate experiences regarding supernatural contacts with the dead and collective experiences regarding social life in different contexts. It shows as well how ghost lore functions as an identity marker of social groups who share knowledge concerning the supernatural in heterogeneous living cultures.

摘要

这篇文章讲述了与阿根廷墓地中一位年轻女子的超自然幽灵有关的“女鬼”传说。这个传说与世界各地的其他传说相似，与历史事件交织在一起，例如真正的阿根廷妇女的悲惨死亡，她们的葬礼纪念碑吸引了黑暗旅游。其中一些纪念碑安放在雷科莱塔墓地，可以说是布宜诺斯艾利斯市的一道人文景观。这样的葬礼纪念碑是旅游行程的一部分，提供了探索不同社会如何处理情感问题的方法，例如早逝话语分析提供了方法论指南来分析传说的话语结构，其隐喻符号作为论证策略使观众相信叙事话语的真实性，与“相信的修辞”相关。这种方法使我们得出这样的结论，即以困扰女孩为主角的叙事既表达了与死者超自然接触的亲密经历，也表达了关于不同背景下社会生活的集体经历。它还展示了鬼魂传说如何作为社会群体的身份标记，这些社会群体在异质的生活文化中分享有关超自然知识的知识。这种方法使我们得出这样的结论，即以困扰女孩为主角的叙事既表达了与死者超自然接触的亲密经历，也表达了关于不同背景下社会生活的集体经历。它还展示了鬼魂传说如何作为社会群体的身份标记，这些社会群体在异质的生活文化中分享有关超自然知识的知识。这种方法使我们得出这样的结论，即以困扰女孩为主角的叙事既表达了与死者超自然接触的亲密经历，也表达了关于不同背景下社会生活的集体经历。它还展示了鬼魂传说如何作为社会群体的身份标记，这些社会群体在异质的生活文化中分享有关超自然知识的知识。