RT Journal Article
T1 Dissecting Economic Op-Eds: An Annotation Schema for Editorials in Quality Newspapers
A1 Fernández Cruz, Javier
K1 Análisis del discurso
K1 Editores
K1 Retórica
K1 Lingüística computacional
AB This study examines the rhetorical structure and sentiment dynamics of 82 economic opinion editorials authored by prominent commentators. Using a novel annotation schema, we analyze Functional Discourse Units (FDUs), polarity, entities, and opinion holders to uncover the linguistic and rhetorical strategies employed in economic op-eds. The findings reveal a predominance of negative evaluations, highlighting the critical tone characteristic of the genre. Description/Analysis and Context FDUs are the most frequent, reflecting the op-eds’ focus on situating economic issues within broader narratives. Annotation challenges, such as gradation of sentiment and irony, emphasize the complexity of evaluating economic discourse. Despite these challenges, high inter-annotator agreement in key categories supports the robustness of the schema. This study bridges computational linguistics and discourse analysis, offering valuable insights into economic journalism while laying a foundation for future research on evaluative language and sentiment analysis in specialized corpora.
PB Springer Nature
SN 2509-9507
YR 2025
FD 2025-05-29
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38890
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38890
LA eng
NO Fernández-Cruz, J. Dissecting Economic Op-Eds: An Annotation Schema for Editorials in Quality Newspapers. Corpus Pragmatics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-025-00192-7
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 23 ene 2026