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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Autores: Saiz de Lobado García, María Ester, López Lago, Miguel Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/50560
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50560
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Spanish Press
Conceptual metonymies
Critica! Discourse Analysis
Madrid
Lavapiés
Prensa española
Metonimias conceptuales
Análisis Crítico del Discurso
Lingüística
Sociología
Linguistics
Sociology
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Sumario: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.