Sustentabilidad Capturada: Una Mirada Crítica al Discurso como Instrumento de Dominio en el Concepto de Desarrollo

Sustainable development is a historical concept, so its definition has diverse origins, all associated to an end, with always clear goals: the economic and commercial advancement of societies. From the semantic structure that characterizes it, it has consolidated a language that assumes its own rules, as it defines and standardizes for all the linguistic codes that must integrate it, and most importantly, what each one means. Based on this, this article analyzes and discusses the process that has allowed it to maintain its validity as a guiding idea for almost four decades, showing the ways in which a grammar is constructed whose verbs and copulative sentences connect the subject (development) with an attribute (sustainable). In this way it is observed how the word “development” stands as the guiding principle of the dominant syntagms, the nucleus of the grammatical subject of the sentences that explain what sustainable development should be. Conditions that grant sustainability a marginal, substitute role, as a defining adjective, or as an abstract noun that identifies.