Recursos léxico-pragmáticos en los titulares de la prensa deportiva digital
Lexical and Pragmatic Measures in Sports News Headlines Online

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the headlines in a sports news comparable corpus from a lexical, semantic and pragmatic point of view. The corpus contains articles taken from the leading online sports newspapers from Madrid and Barcelona. A Polish sports website has been used as tertium comparationis. A detailed corpus-based analysis has led to some important conclusions. First of all, we have noticed a significant difference between the Catalan and Madrilenian headlines in the way featured events involving two main rival football clubs, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, are presented and assessed. Unlike its Spanish counterparts, the Polish website seems to take a more objective and neutral stance on the same facts. A frequently used strategy, in particular by the Catalan newspaper, consists of focusing the readers’ attention on less relevant characters and events. This tendency may be related to other features, such as a marked preference for a semantic and formal type of headline on both the Madrilenian and Catalan websites, and certain formal and lexical measures which they adopt more often.

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