IDENTIFICACIÓN DE LOS CONECTORES DISCURSIVOS DE MÁS ALTA FRECUENCIA EN NOTAS PERIODÍSTICAS DEPORTIVAS

Abstract

This study aims to identify the most frequently used discourse connectors in a corpus consisting of 300 different sports articles published in Spanish-language newspapers: 50 articles from baseball, football soccer, American football, basketball, and tennis, with a further 50 from other sports. The main purpose of the study consists of determining the logical relationships that occur most frequently in the context of sporting texts, particularly in news stories. This research aims to contribute to the categorisation of linguistic sports discourse in Spanish. The results of the study showed that the connectors of purpose were the most frequently used in the corpus. Among the 1.462 discourse connectors found in the corpus, 520 tokens reflected purpose; whereas condition connectors were the least recurrent with only 51 tokens.