The Europe of Brexita corpus-assisted discourse study of identities in the press

  1. Pena Díaz, Carmen 1
  2. Sánchez Ramos, María del Mar 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

Journal:
Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación

ISSN: 1576-4737

Year of publication: 2021

Issue Title: Monografía: La escritura académica en el contexto universitario del siglo XXI

Issue: 88

Pages: 225-234

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/CLAC.72672 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Drawing on a what is known as corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) approach (Baker et al., 2008), this article will research the construction of different identities by means of the language used in two newspaper articles on Brexit from the Spanish El País and the British The Guardian, to examine how these identities are constructed through media discourse at the time following the Brexit referendum (2016-2018). Media discourse surrounding Brexit is examined under the consideration of media power. A comparable corpus made up of original newspaper articles about Brexit was used to carry out the analysis, identifying statistically significant keywords compared with a reference corpus with the aim of providing an example of how the British and Spanish press construct identity.

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Funding information

This research was carried out within the framework of the project Original, translated and interpreted representations of the refugee cris(e)s: methodological triangulation within corpus-based discourse studies (PID2019-108866RB-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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