A Study of the “Volunteer” in the Spanish and English Press
from Part III - Media Discourse and Conflict Resolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2022
Refugee crises around the world, especially the recent European migrant crisis, have highlighted the importance of the work done by volunteers. Drawing on a corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) approach and based on a comparable corpus of English and Spanish newspaper articles, this chapter examines the construction of the volunteer identity through language use in the press by combining quantitative corpus techniques and qualitative methods. Among other findings, the results indicate a humanitarian discourse in which volunteerism is constructed as a helping activity.
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