Linguistic and Discursive Strategies in the Informative Treatment of Intercultural Conflict: the War of Iraq in the Venezuelan Press

This paper analyses linguistic and discursive strategies employed by journalists in the recontextualization of the Iraqi war. A linguistic-communicative model for the analysis of the informative treatment of intercultural conflicts is designed and its validity is shown through its application in the study of a sample of two texts published by Venezuelan newspapers: Panorama and El Nacional. It is concluded that the informative treatment of intercultural conflicts must integrate linguistic and discursive strategies with an axiological substrate, to promote verbal politeness, communicative action and understanding, to prevent the communicational barriers, the polarization of the parties and the spectacle of conflict situations.