Análisis crítico del discurso del nacionalismo en las noticias de prensa deportiva durante encuentros internacionales de la selección ecuatoriana de fútbol: el caso de El Mercurio y El Tiempo

Abstract

The nationalistic discourse has a great potential to manifest itself in the context of association football, the most popular sport in Ecuador. This study aims to identify the nationalistic manifestations found in this country's sports journalism discourse. Similarly, the researcher aims to find the specific ways in which these discourses express themselves. This investigation focuses on an analysis of the news articles found in the Ecuadorian daily newspapers El Tiempo and El Mercurio, one day before and one day after each of the Ecuador National Team's South American Russia World Cup 2018 qualifying matches in the year 2015 against Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela respectively. The researcher uses the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis to determine the existence of an allusion to nationalistic discourse. Thus, the author identified a clear allusion to nationalistic discourse in different expressions that refer to a semantic relationship between the nation and the national football team, an homogenization of the Ecuadorian citizens around the national football team, representations of national symbolism and an accentuation of antagonisms and rivalries between national teams in football.