The journalistic discourse on Latin American immigration in Spain: the corpus of news INMIGRA

The journalistic discourse about Latin American immigration in Spain: the ZNMIGRA corpus. This paper offers the first research analysis of the INMIGRA corpus (http://www.grupoinmigra-imasd.es). This corpus is formed by journalistic texts from general-interest, reference, non free Spanish newspapers (Abc and El Pais), general-interest free newspapers (20 minutos and ADN), and newspapers specifically oriented to immigrant population (Latino and Si; se puede). The texts were compiled in the first fortnight of both October and November 2008. Our aim is to deal with the linguistic treatment given to different issues related to Latin American immigration, as well as with the images of immigration transferred by the above mentioned newspapers. Specifically, we have started studying the key issues considered in the different information pieces, with the double purpose of analyzing the references made of the subjects and actors of the information, and also the framing types provided by these media about the reality of immigration.