Análisis del léxico relacionado con la monoparentalidad femenina en un corpus de prensa digital española

Abstract

This article analyzes the structures of single-parent families headed by women by focusing on the discourse of the media in Spain over the last thirty years. This goal will be reached through a corpus-based study that will provide data, from the quantitative and qualitative point of view, on the selected lexical items. This study will enable us to examine to what extent the Spanish press contributes to stereotype this kind of family model. Amongst our conclusions are: (1) in the last analyzed biennium, a greater visibility and less social concealment of the phenomenon has been revealed; (2) over time there was some change in the kind of issues related to this family model; and (3) certain lexical items have been traditionally associated with social exclusion and poverty, whereas other lexical items have been associated with women’s empowerment.