Comparative study of the treatment of news on “everyday” politics in the Spanish press
Abstract
This paper presents the results of the analysis of 7 news items published in 2018 by 3 Spanish newspapers (21 texts). These three newspapers are associated with different ideological tendencies and have barely been studied from a linguistic perspective. The main aim of this research is to check whether the results of our study which, as a novelty, is based on “everyday” political news, corroborate such bias. For this purpose, the techniques used have not only been qualitative, rooted in discourse analysis, but also quantitative. From a quantitative perspective, the length of the articles, the number of quotes and the percentage of both similar and different lemmas have been studied. Regarding the qualitative analysis, we have dealt with issues related to focus, lexical semantic connotations, and the degree of discourse complexity. The results of both analyses are along the same lines and allow us to corroborate, albeit with nuances, the tendency associated with the media studied.
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