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La palabra "polarización" se ha popularizado en los últimos años, extendiendo su significado más allá del ámbito político a situaciones de enfrentamiento en cualquier otro contexto. Este trabajo presenta un estudio pormenorizado de la frecuencia de uso, contextos y extensión del significado en un corpus de noticias publicadas en los dos periódicos españoles más leídos, "El País" y "El Mundo", durante el año 2021. Para ello se han combinado metodologías de la Lingüística de Corpus y del Análisis Crítico y Socio-cognitivo del Discurso, analizando tanto las frecuencias, colocaciones y construcciones sintácticas, como los contextos, los esquemas de imagen y las metáforas conceptuales que conforman su significado. Los resultados apuntan a un posible abuso del término por parte de los medios y a la confirmación de la palabra polarización como una palabra clave, que juega un papel esencial en el discurso político y mediático y que ayuda a definir el actual contexto social y cultural en España., "Polarization" has become a popular word in recent years, as its
meaning has been extended beyond the political field to any situation of conflict
in other contexts. This work presents a detailed study of the frequency, contexts and meaning extension of the word in a corpus of news from the two main
Spanish newspapers, "El País" and "El Mundo", in 2021. For this, methodologies
from both Corpus Linguistics and Critical Socio-cognitive Discourse Analysis
have been combined, by analyzing frequencies, collocations, syntactic
constructions as well as contexts, image schemas and the conceptual metaphors
that shape its meaning. Results point to a possible abuse of the term in the media
and the confirmation of polarization as a keyword, playing an essential role in
political and media discourse, defining the current socio-cultural context in
Spain., Agencia Estatal de Investigación

This paper explores the multimodal realization of social polarization in European digital news through the construction of threat. Drawing from both media and communication studies and cognitive critical discourse analysis, this study investigates how media framing and event-construal operations shape news interpretations through a proximization strategy. For this purpose, a multilingual sample of 73 European newsbites about the attack on Brazilian congress by the followers of former president Jair Bolsonaro was collected.
The analysis reveals several framing devices and construal operations that present the events in Brazil as relevant and potentially threatening to European audiences. Findings indicate that media framing encourages European readers to sympathize with Brazil’s current government under Lula da Silva, while portraying Bolsonaro’s supporters as an imminent threat, thereby reflecting and reinforcing polarization in public perception. These results offer valuable insights for media discourse analysts, cognitive linguists, and researchers examining polarized discourse., Agencia Estatal de Investigación

A growing concern in most European countries, ‘polarisation’ has spread far beyond the political arena and is now present in public opinion in a wide variety of social and cultural subjects, from economics to education, health, environment or religion. Rather than an enriching plurality of views, polarisation is mostly perceived as a negative trend that hinders consensus and favours conflict instead, threatening welfare, peace and even democracy. As a result, the word polarisation has become a frequent term in the press. This paper examines the way in which the word polarización/polarisation is used in a corpus of news items collected from four widely read mainstream newspapers, two Spanish and two British, all of them containing the word polarización/polarisation and published in 2022. A combination of Corpus Linguistics methods and a Critical SocioCognitive approach to Discourse Analysis has been followed in order to analyse the most common contexts and patterns of usage of the term in the press in these two countries, its negative semantic prosody and collocational behaviour, as well as the underlying schematic conceptualization of the phenomenon as realized in metaphors and image schemas. Even though minor differences have been found, results show significant similarities in Spanish and English, which manifest the negative evaluation associated to the term construed by its collocates, by metaphorical source domains such as 'disease', 'war' or 'dangerous natural forces', as well as by image schemas that impinge on physical and ideological distance. Conclusions suggest that polarisation has become a sociopolitical keyword; a ‘superword’ with enhanced meanings and strong framing effects in the texts in which it occurs., Agencia Estatal de Investigación

In 2015 and 2016, European newspapers covered the Syrian migration into
Europe in great detail, describing the path followed by millions of refugees as
European authorities put up both physical and metaphorical obstacles to
stop their advance. WATER metaphors, a common resource in immigration
discourse, were extensively used in the media during this period. Apparently
neutral, expressions like the flow of refugees or a new wave of immigrants
seemed to be devoid of ideological bias, and so an objective, factual way to
present the news about it. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the
contexts in which WATER metaphors were used in two ideologically opposed
Spanish newspapers in this period. Results show that their descriptive function was surpassed by the evaluative one, as revealed by the high frequency
of FORCE DYNAMIC schemas underlying the FLOW metaphor, the most frequent
one in the sample. Negatively charged, the frequent use of flow to refer to
Syrian refugees could have affected public opinion on the event. Also,
a contrastive analysis suggests that there are subtle differences between
the right and the left wing when using these metaphors, but they are not as
significant as expected, since both newspapers tend to avoid overt negativity
in their discourse on Syrian migration. Considering the relatively small size of
the sample, further work needs to be done to confirm these results in the
Spanish press and also to extend the analysis to other European media., Agencia Estatal de Investigación

<p>The project’s main aim is to explore the multimodal construction of a political event across European newspapers. </p>
<p>The event selected for the analysis is Brazil congress attack, happened on 8th Jan 2023, when a mob of Former President Jair Bolsonaro’ supporters assaulted federal government buildings in the capital, Brasilia, destroying property and vandalizing art and offices of legislators. A multilingual sample of 73 newsbites published on January 8th, 9th and 10th 2023 in digital European newspapers, namely El País, El Mundo, Repubblica, Corriere, The Times, The Guardian, Le Monde and Le Figaro, was collected and analysed. </p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to explore the digital discursive strategies employed by assistant teachers in an online community of practice, focusing on their teaching context and narrative positioning.</p>

<p>The corpus selected for the analysis is derived from a digital forum conducted in English, involving 117 language assistants from bilingual (English-Spanish) schools in the Region of Madrid, Spain. The assistants, who participated in the forum during the academic year 2022-2023, were asked to address the question : “What’s your opinion on Madrid’s Bilingual Education?”.</p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to explore the discursive functions of similes used to communicate the fist waves of Covid-19 pandemic in digital newspapers in 2020.</p>

<p>The dataset includes 200 news items (100 English and 100 Spanish) containing both the string ‘TARGET is like SOURCE’ where virus or coronavirus is either the target, that is, the concept that is described (‘(CORONA)VIRUS is like X’), or the source, i.e. the concept that lends its properties for another, usually more abstract, one (‘X is like A VIRUS’). </p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to analyze the sources, mappings and conceptual domains of the Covid-19 similes in order to describe how the pandemic is conceptualized through the use of ‘(corona)virus is like X’ similes.The paper also analyzes the use of similes diachronically trying to uncover any evolution patterns in terms of frequency or domains in the two-year period analyzed (2020-2022).</p>
<p>The dataset includes constructions with the word virus/coronavirus as a target in simile form (98 similes in English and 95 in Spanish). The examples were searched for on the Internet and cover a two-year period, from March 2020 to February 2022. </p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to analyze the multimodal representation of the Syrian refugee crisis in 2016 in two European newspapers, The Guardian from the UK and El País from Spain, in order to unveil which strategies are used, both in headlines and photos, to construe a specific conceptualization of the two opposing groups involved, European citizens (us) and Syrian immigrants (them). </p>
<p>The dataset includes 100 newspaper headlines and 100 images (50 UK and 50 Spanish) from 2016.</p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to compare the use of similes and corresponding metaphors deployed by Spanish digital media to communicate Covid-19 from February 2020 to February 2022.</p>

<p>The dataset includes constructions with the word virus/coronavirus as a target both in simile form (94 examples, 76 sources for ‘(corona)virus is like X’) and in metaphor form (225 examples, 35 sources for ‘(corona)virus is X’). </p>

<p>Student teachers are often excluded from discussions about educational programs that could significantly influence their professional development in the short or medium term. This project seeks to address this research gap by exploring the views of pre-primary and primary teacher trainees regarding bilingual education programs (BEPs) in Spain.</p>
<p>The dataset presents the answers provided by 170 prospective teachers of primary and pre-primary at the University Autónoma of Madrid to a questionnaire, which consists of 17 close-ended items distributed into three blocks. In addition to the independent variables and sub-variables of the study (sex, age, degree, year, specialisation, and self-perceived level of English proficiency), items enquired about the trainees’ opinions regarding the regional BEP, its effectiveness in class, and its impact on their future professional careers, as well as a set of open questions related to the student teachers’ experiences and opinions on BEPs.</p>

Dataset 21 periódicos con noticias sobre la subida de precios de la electricidad en España y Europa. Noticias en inglés y en español.
Se aplicó el filtro "solo noticias".

<p>The project’s main aim is to analyze WAVE and TIDE metaphors in four countries (USA, Spain, France and Italy) undergoing elections in 2022 and 2023. To this aim, a of all ideological stances and analyzed for their frequencies, collocations, mappings, elaborations and evaluative meanings.</p>
<p>The dataset includes 200 news items, collected from digital media 2022-2023. </p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to observe how reality in a conflict, such as the war in Ukraine, is metaphorically reflected in the social network X and to understand the potential evaluative and polarizing power of force schemas.</p>

<p>The event selected for the analysis is the war in Ukraine. The collected and analysed sample consists of 743 posts, all of which include metaphors manually retrieved from the hashtags #IStandWithUkraine (526 posts) and #IStandWithRussia (217 posts) found on the social network X around six important or significant events in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia from February to May 2022: the beginning of the war; the occupation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant; the Bucha massacre; the Kramatorsk railway station attack; the sinking of the Moskva; and the Mariupol theatre airstrike.</p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to identify the cultural and societal facets of Australia depicted in the TV show Bluey, with the aim of assessing its pedagogical value in teaching English to non-native learners within the context of primary education.</p>

<p>The corpus selected for the analysis derives from a form in English completed by thirty observers, all of them students enrolled in the Degree in Primary Education (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain). They analysed 52 episodes of the first season of Bluey. </p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to analyze the way in which the word 'polarisation' is used in a corpus of news items collected from four widely read mainstream newspapers, two Spanish and two British, all of them containing the word polarización/polarisation and published in 2022. </p>
<p>The dataset includes 340 news items, collected from digital media 2022. </p>

<p>The project's main aim is to explore the discursive construction of polarisation in two corpora of political discourses (one including speeches and interviews, and another X posts) of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó, the key figures in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis. This event began on January 23rd, 2019, when Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself interim president of Venezuela even though Nicolás Maduro had already won the general elections in May 2018. To analyse polarisation in this context and corpus, the project looks at its evaluative collocates, polarising metaphors and social actor representations.</p>

<p>This sample contains two corpora: one of 5 political speeches addressed by Maduro and Guaidó and 4 political interviews targeting these leaders and carried out by the international TV channels BBC and Euronews (33547 words in total), and another of 5448 X posts (199916 words) posted in Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó's official X accounts (@NicolasMaduro and @JGuaido, respectively) during the first and most active year of the presidential crisis, i.e., 2019-2020. Both original posts and retweets are included. Posts in languages other than Spanish were excluded, as well as those containing only emojis and images. As for the political speeches and interviews, the speeches were delivered by both leaders the day of Guaidó's self-proclamation (23 January 2019) and exactly a year after that (23 January 2020), and the interviews were conducted around the same dates (February and March 2019), as detailed below:<p>
<ul>Nicolás Maduro:
<li>Annual commemoration speech and response to Guaidó's self-proclamation (23/01/2019)</li>
<li>Annual commemoration speech (23/01/2020)</li>
<li>BBC interview (12/02/2019)</li>
<li>Euronews interview (13/02/2019)</li>
</ul>
<ul>Juan Guaidó:
<li>Self-proclamation speech (23/01/2019)</li>
<li>World Economic Forum speech (23/01/2020)</li>
<li>National Conflict Resolution speech (21/02/2020)</li>
<li>Euronews interview (18/02/2019)</li>
<li>BBC interview (15/03/2019)</li>
</ul>
<p>Each corpus was divided into two subcorpora for practical purposes, each corresponding to the politicians under study, i.e., Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó.</p>

<p>The project’s main aim is to analyse how women are metaphorically portrayed in the mural of Northern Ireland. </p>
<p>The event selected for the analysis is the conflict of Northern Ireland in which women had a passive and active role. A sample of 42 Catholic murals and 20 Protestant murals, was collected and analysed. </p>

<p>The project's main aim is to explore the discursive construction of polarisation and national identity in a corpus of X posts of Santiago Abascal and Jair Bolsonaro, the main far-right populist leaders in Spain and Brazil, respectively. The corpus covers the years 2020 and 2021, that is, the key years in the Covid-19 pandemic, so as to provide a recent account of these extreme populisms. To analyse polarisation in this context and corpus, the project looks at different construal operations, including polarising metaphors, image schemas (especially force dynamics), profiling, metonymy and specificity. </p>
<p>This corpus contains a sample of X posts (formerly tweets) posted in Santiago Abascal and Jair Bolsonaro's official X accounts (@Santi_ABASCAL and @jairbolsonaro, respectively) during the years 2020 and 2021. Both original posts and quoted tweets are included. Reposts and responses were excluded, as well as posts in languages other than Spanish and Portuguese and those containing only emojis and images. The corpus adds up to a total number of 4992 posts (152407 words).</p>
<p>The corpus was divided into two subcorpora for practical purposes, each corresponding to the politicians under study, i.e., Santiago Abascal and Jair Bolsonaro.</p>

<p>This project's main objective is to analyze the multimodal strategies of polarization in political discourse. The methods and analytical tools of Sociocognitive Linguistics (SCL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) are used in order to understand the relationship between language, cognition, and social practices in the construction of polarization.</p>
<p>The dataset includes 280 posters collected from 2005 to 2023 against gender violence and 60 feminist protest banners 2017-2020.</p>
<p>100 posters collected from 2022 to 2023 are used to analyse anti-gender violence institutional posters as polarizing narratives using critical and socio-cognitive tools. </p>
<p>180 posters collected from 2005 to 2022 are analyzed to study the diachronic evolution of the socio-cognitive frames identified in the data.</p>
<p>60 feminist protest banners collected from Spanish feminist rallies to study multimodal discursive strategies of the slogans.</p>

<p>The project’s aims are to: (1) analyse the current level of usage and acceptance of non-sexist language among the group of pre-service teacher selected in the study; and (2) investigate the correlation between the language of instruction (Spanish vs. English) and the participants’ stance on this issue.</p>

<p>The corpus selected for the analysis is derived from a questionnaire in Spanish, completed by 348 trainee teachers enrolled in pre-primary and primary education programmes in Spain during the 2021–2022 academic year. The first part focused on collecting attributive information and defining the characteristics of the sample. It also included a mandatory written informed consent form. The remainder of the questionnaire was divided into three main sections, comprising 12 closed-ended items. These items explored: participants’ use and perception of inclusive language (IL) in an academic context (Section 1); their perception of professors’ use of IL (Section 2); and their intention to use IL with their future students (Section 3).</p>