Political Humor: the genre viewed from the lens of Corpus Linguistics
In this paper, we present a genre study through the prism of Corpus Linguistics, specifically through the analysis of a corpus of journalistic opinion articles, authored by the writer Alejandro Borensztein, published in the Sunday column entitled Humor Político, in the Argentine newspaper Clarín. Ou...
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Instituto de Lingüística. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires
2025
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| Sumario: | In this paper, we present a genre study through the prism of Corpus Linguistics, specifically through the analysis of a corpus of journalistic opinion articles, authored by the writer Alejandro Borensztein, published in the Sunday column entitled Humor Político, in the Argentine newspaper Clarín. Our aims are to identify, analyse, and describe lexicogrammatical elements that point to the establishment of political humor as a genre, from an empirical-exploratory analysis of the corpus of study, by means of tools, techniques, and resources characteristic of research in written textual corpora. We resorted to the theoretical basis of Systemic-Functional Linguistics, regarding language as social semiotics (Halliday 1978) and the specific semiotic functions of the text, with social value in culture, in other words, the genres in relation to life in society. Based on keyword extraction and concordance lines analysis, we observe contextualized occurrences. The results point to different lexicogrammatical choices, confirming the persuasive social role of the discourses that emerge from the corpus, in which a critical point of view of the political-economic situation is carried out. |
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