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This article presents an analysis of the main discourses that appear in a sample of Spanish newspapers before and after the arrival of the Aquarius at the port of Valencia in June 2018, in order to observe if there is a solidarity discourse or one that rejects the arrival of the rescued immigrants in Spain. The corpus consists of all the news published from June 10 to July 10, 2018 in the electronic version of the Spanish newspapers ABC, El Mundo, El País and La Vanguardia. The methodology is mainly qualitative-descriptive. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) was chosen to observe the main linguistic characteristics of the collected news items and the topics that appear in the articles. The analysis shows that the testimonies of politicians and members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) predominate, but there are few testimonies of immigrants. The solidarity and acceptance of Spain are strengthened, as well as the defense of human rights. This contrasts with the discourses that the press presents after the arrival of the ship in Valencia. A discourse related to the health of immigrants and their need for help and resources predominates, a fact that contributes to the alarm of the majority group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyses the main linguistic and visual characteristics of sub-Saharan immigrants represented as illegal in a sample from the Spanish press, and the ideological consequences for the audience of the newspapers. The data consists of all the news items published on sub-Saharan immigrants in the digital editions of the three most popular Spanish newspapers, El País, ABC and El Mundo, from 1 June 2011 to 1 June 2014. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and van Leeuwen's (2008) model for the verbal and visual representation of social actors will be used to study the main characteristics of the written language used to refer to sub-Saharan immigrants as illegal in three main ways: as victims, as heroes and as threats. In addition, Kress and van Leeuwen's (2006) visual grammar will be the theoretical framework used to analyse the photographs published in the newspapers studied in order to observe the main visual characteristics that contribute to the portrayal of immigrants as illegal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article constrasts the representation of women and immigrant minors as social actors following the theoretical framework proposed by Theo van Leeuwen (2008). The corpus of examples belongs to the news items from the radio and television programs called Hora Sur Andalucía and Canal Sur Noticias respectively; they were collected between 1 April and 31 July 2011 This corpus is part of the following project: Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucía. Reference: TIC-6517. Call: 2010 "Immigration discourses in Andalusian mass media: the discursive and visual construction of the new Andalusia", University of Granada, Institute of Migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article intends to approach the representation of womanhood in the Irish press from 2006 to 2012. The corpus comprises all the texts dealing with women, from January 1 to 31 December of four years within this time range, taken from one of the main Irish broadsheet newspapers: The Irish Independent. The research database LexisNexis Academic was employed to compile the corpus. For the purposes of this research, Teun van Leeuwen's (2008) social actor network model was applied. This paper points out that Corpus Linguistics (CL) can be a powerful complementary tool to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to approach the way NGOs represent the population in poor countries, in rich countries and the NGOs of Development. Our corpus consists on the publications of Intemon Oxfam published in 2012. We will offer a detailed analysis of the covers because this is the first page seen by the audience and because this is the way in which the NGO introduces itself. Critical discourse analysis, in concrete the model proposed by van Leeuwen in 2008 and Kress and van Leeuwen's (2006) visual grammar will be used in order to provide a detailed analysis of the covers under study in order to observe the main visual characteristics used for presenting people from South countries in one of the main publications of the said NGO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]