RT Journal Article
T1 Tracking diachronic sentiment change of economic terms in times of crisis: Connotative fluctuations of ‘inflation’ in the news discourse
A1 Fernández Cruz, Javier
A1 Moreno-Ortiz, Antonio Jesús
K1 Información económica
AB The present study focuses on the fluctuation of sentiment in economic terminology to observe semantic changes in restricted diachrony. Our study examines the evolution of the target term ‘inflation’ in the business section of quality news and the impact of the Great Recession. This is carried out through the application of quantitative and qualitative methods: Sentiment Analysis, Usage Fluctuation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis. From the diachronic Great Recession News Corpus that covers the 2007–2015 period, we extracted sentences containing the term ‘inflation’. Several facts are evidenced: (i) terms become event words given the increase in their frequency of use due to the unfolding of relevant crisis events, and (ii) there are statistically significant culturally motivated changes in the form of emergent collocations with sentiment-laden words with a lower level of domain-specificity.
YR 2023
FD 2023-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29491
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29491
LA eng
NO Fernández-Cruz J, Moreno-Ortiz A (2023) Tracking diachronic sentiment change of economic terms in times of crisis: Connotative fluctuations of ‘inflation’ in the news discourse. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0287688. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287688
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026