The METOO movement (or #METOO) has been widely reported by American media outlets.
Politicians and social activists take advantage of this social movement as a great momentum to
promote political, economic and social policies in multiple areas especially the ones related to
women’s rights. In turn, the movement gained even more extensive media exposure. However,
as people enter the #METOO era, the general public and media start to split into different camps
in terms of their opinion about this social movement.
In this paper, we can observe how two American news outlets with opposing partisan leanings
-CNN and FOX News- use different linguistic devices and strategies to report the METOO
movement, its associated events as well as actors and participants involved. By conducting a
linguistic analysis of news discourse produced by both outlets, the signals of their respective
attitudes or opinions can be detected.
Corpus linguistic (CL) analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA) as synergetic approaches
are presented to investigate news discourse produced by CNN and FOX News; the corpusbased
study addresses different grammatic categories with a primary focus on the noun, while
CDA or more specifically van Dijk’s news discourse model is applied in a case study of a
specific news event to present a systematic and critical interpretation of news texts at different
dimensions starting from the microstructural and macrostructural dimension (i.e. textual
structure) up to superstructural (i.e. news schemata) and rhetorical dimension.Departamento de Filología InglesaMáster en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lenguas y Culturas en Contact
