Discurso de Podemos y Vox en Twitter: análisis lexicométricos de los tuits publicados durante el primer estado de alarma declarado por el Gobierno español para hacer frente a la pandemia de Covid-19

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Supervisors

De Cock, Barbara

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres françaises et romanes, orientation générale, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

enThis Master’s thesis analyses the discursive practices on Twitter of two Spanish political parties: Podemos and Vox. It compiles the tweets published by the official accounts @PODEMOS and @vox_es during the first state of alarm decreed in 2020 by the Spanish government to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on this peculiar period of crisis, this work highlights the differences in the communication style of the two parties. To conduct this comparison, the study focused on the analysis of Podemos and Vox’s most frequently used terms during that period. The first chapter deals with the political context and the antagonism between the two parties. The second chapter discusses Twitter, its specificities, and its political influence. The terms “discourse”, “discourse analysis” and “political discourse” are hereunder defined. Other notions and fields are also discussed: the use of corpora in linguistics, lexicometry, the study of frequency and the importance of revisiting the context when studying the vocabulary of a text. The third chapter develops the methodology of this research based on four tools: Lexico3, TreeCloud, Hyperbase and Excel. The fourth chapter is dedicated to the analysis. First, it identifies the most used terms by Podemos and Vox which were “gobierno” (government), “medidas" (measures), “crisis” (crisis) and “trabajadores” (workers). Second, it analyses the forms and syntactic constructions surrounding these terms in order to understand the light in which the parties present them.