Análisis del discurso y etiquetas estigmatizantes sobre el escándalo político: el caso Malaya en ABC, El Mundo y El País

Abstract

This research focuses on the critical analysis of the news discourse on the Malaya case on two key dates in the process: 30 March 2006 (dissolution of Marbella’s town hall for urban corruption) and 5 October 2013 (court ruling sentencing 52 people after five years of investigation, plus two years of trial and thirteen months for the document draft). The objective is to verify whether or not there are stigmatizing labels in the information published in three Spanish newspapers: ABC, El Mundo and El País. The denotative and connotative elements in the text are identified and classified through Iramuteq, a lexical statistical tool that searches for correlations of a corpus’ specific graphic forms. The results show the representation of the judicial plot and it is concluded that the three journals use parameters attributing qualities which disqualify specific people.