Approach to the construction of the news in the daily nationwide press (“El Mercurio”, 2010) involving Peruvian issues. A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
Abstract
This research intends to unveil the mechanisms through which the nationwide press generates and represents the cultural discourses coming from the bilateral coexistence between Peruvians and Chileans.
Carrying out a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the news of the beginnings of 2010, extracted from “El Mercurio” -which belongs to the consortium that controls the nationwide informative issuing in Chile (El Mercurio S.A.P.)- this paper proposes an approach to the processes of social construction of the reality used to represent the discourses of difference which have resulted into discrimination, generalisations and xenophobia concerning, mainly, the Peruvian issues, marking significant gaps with us: the Chileans.
