Open AccessThe Europe of Brexit: a corpus-assisted discourse study of identities in the press
Author(s) -
Carmen Pena,
María del Mar Sánchez Ramos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.298
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 1576-4737
DOI - 10.5209/clac.72672
Subject(s) - brexit , referendum , newspaper , guardian , identity (music) , linguistics , construct (python library) , corpus linguistics , political science , media studies , sociology , politics , law , art , european union , computer science , philosophy , aesthetics , business , economic policy , programming language
Drawing on a what is known as corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) approach (Baker et al., 2008), this article will research the construction of different identities by means of the language used in two newspaper articles on Brexit from the Spanish El País and the British The Guardian, to examine how these identities are constructed through media discourse at the time following the Brexit referendum (2016-2018). Media discourse surrounding Brexit is examined under the consideration of media power. A comparable corpus made up of original newspaper articles about Brexit was used to carry out the analysis, identifying statistically significant keywords compared with a reference corpus with the aim of providing an example of how the British and Spanish press construct identity.