TY  - BOOK
AU  - Javier Fernández-Cruz
AU  - Antonio Moreno-Ortiz
PY  - 2024
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
SN  - 9783034347815
TI  - Economic terms in the news during the Great Recession
T2  - A diachronic sentiment and collocational analysis
DO  - 10.3726/b21287
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1443113
N2  - This book explores the evolution of sentiment in economic terms in the press during financial crises applying a combination of sentiment analysis techniques and usage fluctuation analysis on a diachronic corpus derived from editorials in quality newspapers during the Great Recession. The book uncovers two key findings: first, certain economic terms become event words during times of crisis due to their increased use in the press and the general public, revealing rapid semantic changes in economic terms caused by major socio-economic events. Second, sentiment-laden collocations are found to be influenced by culture, highlighting language’s adaptability to financial upheavals. This work proposes an innovative methodology that combines lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and qualitative Discourse Analysis to shed light on how language shapes economic discourse, making it a valuable resource for scholars exploring the relationship between language and historic events.
KW  - Corpus Linguistics, Sentiment Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Great Recession, Terminology, Economic Discourse
LA  - English
ER  -