RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Creation of a large news corpus for the discourse analysis of Violence Against Women (VAW)
A1 Fuster-Márquez, Miguel
A1 Fernández-Melendres, Carla
K1 Violencia de género
K1 Género
K1 Análisis del discurso
K1 Prensa
AB The press is considered to play a fundamental social role, as it shapes public opinion. Inthis regard, CDA Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has as a primary aim to study “the waysocial power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by textand talk in the social and political context” with the purpose of resisting “social inequality(van Dijk, 1991: 353). The analysis of ideologies in news discourse has a long tradition,but only recently have linguists started to use large corpora and corpus techniques to studythem. This presentation describes the process of developing a large corpus of journalisticnews in English, Spanish and Catalan on Violence Against Women (VAW) in the digitalpress, which contains over 80,000 texts and 70 million words so far. This corpus is partof the NEWSGEN project of the University of Valencia, which aims to document andinvestigate the historical evolution and the political, cultural, social, and ideologicalimpact of discourses on VAW in recent times.Methodologically, the three phases for creating this corpus will be described:design, compilation, and annotation. The seed words on VAW have been defined in thedesign phase. The Factiva database was used for the compilation of the corpus, and thenthe texts were cleaned of irrelevant data and duplicates were eliminated. Finally, the textswere annotated with metadata such as the article's date, title, and body. A statisticalanalysis of the corpus was conducted, and case studies showing its potential and possibleapplications will be presented.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25463
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25463
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 4 mar 2026