Politicization of Immigration and Language Use in Political Elites: A Study of Spanish Parliamentary Speeches
[EN] This study uses natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyze how politicians rec reate the stereotype of immigrants in the Spanish Parliament. An interdisciplinary approach from computational linguistics and social psychology has been used to con struct a variety of indices about content...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| 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:10251/227142 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/227142 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Immigration Stereotyping Prejudice Parliamentary discourse Computational linguistics |
| Sumario: | [EN] This study uses natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyze how politicians rec reate the stereotype of immigrants in the Spanish Parliament. An interdisciplinary approach from computational linguistics and social psychology has been used to con struct a variety of indices about content and linguistic styles. The analysis of 2,516 par liamentary interventions about immigration delivered between 1996 and 2016 by representatives of the two political parties that alternated in power during that period (conservative Popular Party and Spanish Socialist Party) shows that both the rhetorical strategy to present immigrants as ¿victims¿ or as a ¿threat¿ and the language style that politicians use reveal an interaction between the ideology of the party and the party¿s political position in government or in the opposition. Results also suggest some changes over time in the polarization and politicization of the debate about immigration. |
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