Migratory movements in the press of Spanish-speaking countries (2017)

• Main Authors: Salas Luis Guerra, Sánchez María Elena Gómez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2020-06-01
• Series: Open Linguistics
• Subjects: migratory movements; spanish-speaking newspapers; representation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0019

The aim of this article is to analyze journalistic texts on migratory movements appeared on the main newspapers of Spanish-speaking countries along 2017. The focus is put on the subjects that the newspapers highlight, the regions selected and the linguistics elections being made. The research has a multidisciplinary approach that uses the concept of representation, as being used in linguistics pragmatics and cultural anthropology. We use the database Factiva® as the starting point to collect the journalistic pieces that we use for our analysis. The search has been refined using linguistic, contextual, geographic and chronological criteria. Two sub-corpora have been built with the texts obtained through the search. One focuses strictly on Spanish press and the second one is related to the Hispanic area (seven newspapers have been chosen to build this corpus, and each one of them represents one of the seven ample dialectal areas of Spanish language). The qualitative analysis is based on the key words of each of these sub-corpora; such key words are stablished from a text-mining technique that offers the most relevant words and sentences of the first 100 texts obtained through every specific search.