A year of El País headlines on childhood obesity (2013)

This research aims to examine the contents and discourse of Spanish newspaper reports about obesity, especially that involving children and adolescents. An initial corpus was complied with 183 news items published by the largest circulating national daily El País between 01/01/2013 and 31/12/2013 an...

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Autor: Westall Pixton, Debra Lynne|||0000-0001-5508-2195
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/73829
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/73829
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Discourse analysis
Small corpus studies
Newspaper article
Pediatric health
Childhood overweight and obesity
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Sumario:This research aims to examine the contents and discourse of Spanish newspaper reports about obesity, especially that involving children and adolescents. An initial corpus was complied with 183 news items published by the largest circulating national daily El País between 01/01/2013 and 31/12/2013 and retrieved from the digital edition s online archives using the search expression obesidad infantil. After scrutinizing each for relevance, a 69-item sample was selected for quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results of this small corpus study illustrate the trends in coverage in the headlines and the issues associated with obesity over the year.