Manuel Alcántara Plá
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Alcántara Plá |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel Alcántara |
| FAMILY NAME | Plá |
| SIGNATURE | PLÁ M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2438-0293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Refugees, Immigrants, and Emigrants
This study employs Natural Language Processing and Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the representation of refugees, emigrants, and immigrants in Spanish media from 2010 to 2020. Analyzing 140,000 articles, we use computational techniques such as bias, toxicity, hate speech, sentiment, frame and metaphor analyses, with topic modeling to reveal how media shapes public perceptions and societal attitudes. Findings show emigrants are framed in c…
Belonging and borders
This study examines how Spanish political parties, Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), Partido Popular (PP), VOX, and Unidas Podemos (UP), construct and contest representations of Ukrainian refugees on X using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and statistical validation. PSOE exhibits higher positive sentiment and lower hate speech; PP shifts toward greater positivity; VOX displays negative sentiment, fea…
Political Discourse, Emotions, and Polarization
In this article, I take a constructionist approach to study the strategic use of emotions as a polarizing tool by the current president of the region of Madrid, Isabel Díaz-Ayuso. Most of the existing discourse studies on emotions focus on their categorization (since Damasio, 1994; Nabi, 2002; Scheibenzuber et al., 2023). However, categories by themselves do not explain why emotions work so well in political and polarizing discourses, which are t…
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse
Understanding emotions in hate speech
In recent years, emotions have been receiving considerable attention in discourse analysis, identified as a defining feature of contemporary political discourses. However, most of the previous studies in the field have focused on the categorization of emotions and on how these are present in texts. This approach fails if we want to understand the mechanisms that underpin the relevance of emotions in political discourse, because emotion categories…
Las unidades discursivas en los mensajes instantáneos de wasap
Este trabajo aporta datos sobre la necesidad de revisar la definición de las unidades del discurso cuando se aplican al análisis de conversaciones mediante mensajes instantáneos en español. Se ha analizado un corpus de la popular aplicación Whatsapp con 176.000 palabras comparando sus características, por un lado, con otras formas novedosas de comunicación relacionadas con internet y, por otro, con las formas tradicionales de oralidad y escritura…
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse
Understanding emotions in hate speech
In recent years, emotions have been receiving considerable attention in discourse analysis, identified as a defining feature of contemporary political discourses. However, most of the previous studies in the field have focused on the categorization of emotions and on how these are present in texts. This approach fails if we want to understand the mechanisms that underpin the relevance of emotions in political discourse, because emotion categories…
Las unidades discursivas en los mensajes instantáneos de wasap
Este trabajo aporta datos sobre la necesidad de revisar la definición de las unidades del discurso cuando se aplican al análisis de conversaciones mediante mensajes instantáneos en español. Se ha analizado un corpus de la popular aplicación Whatsapp con 176.000 palabras comparando sus características, por un lado, con otras formas novedosas de comunicación relacionadas con internet y, por otro, con las formas tradicionales de oralidad y escritura…
Understanding emotions in hate speech
In recent years, emotions have been receiving considerable attention in discourse analysis, identified as a defining feature of contemporary political discourses. However, most of the previous studies in the field have focused on the categorization of emotions and on how these are present in texts. This approach fails if we want to understand the mechanisms that underpin the relevance of emotions in political discourse, because emotion categories…
Political Discourse, Emotions, and Polarization
In this article, I take a constructionist approach to study the strategic use of emotions as a polarizing tool by the current president of the region of Madrid, Isabel Díaz-Ayuso. Most of the existing discourse studies on emotions focus on their categorization (since Damasio, 1994; Nabi, 2002; Scheibenzuber et al., 2023). However, categories by themselves do not explain why emotions work so well in political and polarizing discourses, which are t…
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse
Refugees, Immigrants, and Emigrants
This study employs Natural Language Processing and Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the representation of refugees, emigrants, and immigrants in Spanish media from 2010 to 2020. Analyzing 140,000 articles, we use computational techniques such as bias, toxicity, hate speech, sentiment, frame and metaphor analyses, with topic modeling to reveal how media shapes public perceptions and societal attitudes. Findings show emigrants are framed in c…
Belonging and borders
This study examines how Spanish political parties, Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), Partido Popular (PP), VOX, and Unidas Podemos (UP), construct and contest representations of Ukrainian refugees on X using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and statistical validation. PSOE exhibits higher positive sentiment and lower hate speech; PP shifts toward greater positivity; VOX displays negative sentiment, fea…
Politics (4 works) · Critical discourse analysis (3 works) · Cultural and political discourse analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Digital Communication and Language (2 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works)