Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective
This paper explores the semantic prosody of the lemma refugiado in the Spanish press over a 7-year period (2010-16) with the aim of examining the discursive representation of refugees in this textual genre. The study is concerned with diachronic and quantitative aspects, while focusing on the negat...
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| author | Gema Alcaraz-Mármol Jorge Soto-Almela |
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| description | This paper explores the semantic prosody of the lemma refugiado in the Spanish press over a 7-year period (2010-16) with the aim of
examining the discursive representation of refugees in this textual genre. The study is concerned with diachronic and quantitative aspects, while focusing on the negative lexical units collocating with refugiado. The research is based on the analysis of a 1.8-million-word corpus of Spanish news articles about refugees that were extracted from the digital libraries of El País and El Mundo.
The results show that the frequency of refugiado increases over the 2010-16 period, and so does its negative semantic prosody. This negativity –which is much higher in the last two years under
study– is constructed through certain consistent collocates, seasonal collocates and patterns of language associated with refugees’ massive occupation and victimization. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cfbc37ae54c94ffd9eb02f8ffb654fd42022-12-22T01:11:57ZcatUniversitat de LLeidaSintagma0214-91412013-64552018-11-013095113Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspectiveGema Alcaraz-Mármol0Jorge Soto-Almela1Universidad de Castilla-La ManchaUniversidad Católica de MurciaThis paper explores the semantic prosody of the lemma refugiado in the Spanish press over a 7-year period (2010-16) with the aim of examining the discursive representation of refugees in this textual genre. The study is concerned with diachronic and quantitative aspects, while focusing on the negative lexical units collocating with refugiado. The research is based on the analysis of a 1.8-million-word corpus of Spanish news articles about refugees that were extracted from the digital libraries of El País and El Mundo. The results show that the frequency of refugiado increases over the 2010-16 period, and so does its negative semantic prosody. This negativity –which is much higher in the last two years under study– is constructed through certain consistent collocates, seasonal collocates and patterns of language associated with refugees’ massive occupation and victimization.http://www.sintagma.udl.cat/export/sites/Sintagma/documents/Articles_30/Sintagma-30-6.pdfrefugeesSpanish presscorpus linguisticssemantic prosodydiachronic perspective. |
| spellingShingle | Gema Alcaraz-Mármol Jorge Soto-Almela Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective Sintagma refugees Spanish press corpus linguistics semantic prosody diachronic perspective. |
| title | Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective |
| title_full | Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective |
| title_fullStr | Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective |
| title_short | Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective |
| title_sort | refugees in the spanish press a corpus assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term refugiado from a diachronic perspective |
| topic | refugees Spanish press corpus linguistics semantic prosody diachronic perspective. |
| url | http://www.sintagma.udl.cat/export/sites/Sintagma/documents/Articles_30/Sintagma-30-6.pdf |
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