Lenguaje periodístico económico de el comercio sobre el desempleo durante temporada de COVID-19 en Ecuador.

Abstract

This research focuses on the theoretical analysis of the news issued by El Comercio newspaper in its economic editorial, focusing on the news about the unemployment rate in Ecuador. It evaluates the effectiveness of the journalistic language on the media, in the specialized process of the economy. The approach, in a theoretical aspect, will seek to emphasize the different implications of language and its content analysis. The approach is qualitative, due to the theoretical approach to language analysis schemes due to its semantic evaluation; being its criteria the Formal Aspects, the Economic Terms and the Management of Sources. The analysis consists of 12 news articles that involve different variants of journalistic work, in the explanation of the fundamentals of the unemployment rate. The evaluation period is from July 1º to December 31, due to the direct association with the rise in the unemployment rate. This study seeks to understand the different professional implications induced by specialized journalistic work, and if the approach to the public of El Comercio newspaper is capable of facilitating a full understanding of the unemployment situation in Ecuador after the consequences of Covid-19.