The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapers

Several studies, such as the one carried out by Checa and Arjona (2011), show the negative view of the Spanish media towards immigration from a social perspective, in which immigration is conceived as a threat and an invasion that causes fear and hostility. However, this negative view has been barel...

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Autores principales:	Alcaraz-Mármol,Gema, Soto Almela,Jorge
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2016
Materias:	Semantic prosody corpus immigration immigrant media discourse
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-093420160002000012016-07-25The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapersAlcaraz-Mármol,GemaSoto Almela,Jorge Semantic prosody corpus immigration immigrant media discourse Several studies, such as the one carried out by Checa and Arjona (2011), show the negative view of the Spanish media towards immigration from a social perspective, in which immigration is conceived as a threat and an invasion that causes fear and hostility. However, this negative view has been barely analysed from a linguistic perspective. In particular, this study aims to explore the semantic prosody of the Spanish lexical items inmigración (immigration) and inmigrante (immigrant) in written media. For this purpose, an ad hoc corpus of news on the phenomenon of immigration has been compiled. News between 2003 and 2013 from two national newspapers with different political ideology (El Mundo and El País) were collected. The analysis of the news was carried out with WordSmith, a corpus analysis software which enabled us to observe the co-occurrences of the words inmigrante and inmigración. The results reveal that most of the words co-occurring with inmigrante and inmigración have an unfavourable meaning. These results confirm those of sociological studies which have found a feeling of rejection towards the phenomenon of immigration. Therefore, our results evidence how this negative feeling is also represented in the media discourse.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del LenguajeRevista signos v.49 n.91 20162016-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-09342016000200001en10.4067/S0718-09342016000200001
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spellingShingle	Semantic prosody corpus immigration immigrant media discourse Alcaraz-Mármol,Gema Soto Almela,Jorge The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapers
description	Several studies, such as the one carried out by Checa and Arjona (2011), show the negative view of the Spanish media towards immigration from a social perspective, in which immigration is conceived as a threat and an invasion that causes fear and hostility. However, this negative view has been barely analysed from a linguistic perspective. In particular, this study aims to explore the semantic prosody of the Spanish lexical items inmigración (immigration) and inmigrante (immigrant) in written media. For this purpose, an ad hoc corpus of news on the phenomenon of immigration has been compiled. News between 2003 and 2013 from two national newspapers with different political ideology (El Mundo and El País) were collected. The analysis of the news was carried out with WordSmith, a corpus analysis software which enabled us to observe the co-occurrences of the words inmigrante and inmigración. The results reveal that most of the words co-occurring with inmigrante and inmigración have an unfavourable meaning. These results confirm those of sociological studies which have found a feeling of rejection towards the phenomenon of immigration. Therefore, our results evidence how this negative feeling is also represented in the media discourse.
author	Alcaraz-Mármol,Gema Soto Almela,Jorge
author_facet	Alcaraz-Mármol,Gema Soto Almela,Jorge
author_sort	Alcaraz-Mármol,Gema
title	The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapers
title_short	The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapers
title_full	The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapers
title_fullStr	The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapers
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title_sort	semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the spanish written media: a corpus-based study of two national newspapers
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje
publishDate	2016
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The semantic prosody of the words inmigración and inmigrante in the Spanish written media: A corpus-based study of two national newspapers

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