Metonymies, Immigration, and the Press: From Ilegales to Guiris
The current paper explores the lexical and conceptual metonymies employed by the Spanish press to refer to immigrants from cognitive and critica! discourse perspectives. Two corpora of news stories are analyzed: the first contains news stories about the Comunidad de Madrid, whereas the second is con...
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| Format: | Article |
| Publication date: | 2021 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repository: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/50560 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50560 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Spanish Press Conceptual metonymies Critica! Discourse Analysis Madrid Lavapiés Prensa española Metonimias conceptuales Análisis Crítico del Discurso Lingüística Sociología Linguistics Sociology |
| Summary: | The current paper explores the lexical and conceptual metonymies employed by the Spanish press to refer to immigrants from cognitive and critica! discourse perspectives. Two corpora of news stories are analyzed: the first contains news stories about the Comunidad de Madrid, whereas the second is contextualized and geolocalized in a particular area of Madrid, Lavapiés, where severa! studies have revealed a tendency to use the diversity present in this territory as a marketing strategy. The analysis brings to light diff erences and similarities in the metonymical discourse of each corpus, namely in terms of the distribution of the conceptual metonymies found therein, as well as their correlation with a positive, neutral, or negative assessment of the given news story. The metonymical discourse of the first corpus correlates most strongly with neutral assessments, while that of the second corpus correlates largely with positive assessments of the conceptualizations. |
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