Abstract
Using a transdisciplinary theoretical framework, constituted, on the one hand, by the notions of culture and cultural standard and, on the other, by the approaches of critical discourse analysis, we carried out a contrastive study of news articles about gender violence appearing in Spanish and German newspapers in 2019. The study is based on a corpus made up of news from the Spanish and German ...
Abstract
Using a transdisciplinary theoretical framework, constituted, on the one hand, by the notions of culture and cultural standard and, on the other, by the approaches of critical discourse analysis, we carried out a contrastive study of news articles about gender violence appearing in Spanish and German newspapers in 2019. The study is based on a corpus made up of news from the Spanish and German media that covers two events related to gender violence in which the two countries are involved. We examined three specific discursive parameters: the structure and, with it, the blocks of information they contain; the presence or absence of specific lexical terms for this type of violence in order to segregate it from other cases of common violence; and, finally, the narrative pattern used to construct the portrait of the protagonists, aggressor and victim, of these events. The divergences detected in relation to the parameters investigated indicate that the media of both communities are at very different stages in terms of the informative treatment of these events: the Spanish press is in an advanced or normalized phase, in which such events are represented as part of the political and social agenda of the country; the German press, on the contrary, responds to an earlier stage, in which gender violence receives an episodic frame, similar to the one granted to other violent crimes.
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