El discurso de la ciencia y la tecnología en la prensa escrita chilena: Aproximación al corpus DICIPE-2004

Abstract

Science and technology dissemination discourse in Chilean newspapers: approaching the Corpus DICIPE-2004- Science and technology (C&T) dissemination has become a mayorfield ofstudy during last years, initially through the investigation ofscientific research articles and more recently through different mass media. Ourpresent research objectives are: a) to determine comparatively the space a group offive Chilean newspapers devote to disseminate C&T topics; b) to determine newspaper text types through which C&T is disseminated in written press; c) to identify macrotopics, subtopics, and disciplines to which all texts ofthe corpus can be adscribed. The DICIPE Corpus was collected during three months and is formed by 411 documents. Mayor findings show that C&T dissemination texts are given a mean ofl % from all texts published in thefive newspapers studied and that, basically, most ofthese texts are related to medical sciences, astronomy, astrophysics, andwhat couldbe called "Ufe sciences".