Double intercultural dialogue in the Hispanic press in the United States: the case of New York newspapers

摘要

Taking as a starting point research carried out in 2000 into the concept of Hispanic identity in Spanish-language newspapers in the city of New York, this article provides a diachronic analysis of these media over the period 2000-2012. In the first study, it was established that Spanish-language newspapers reflected an intercultural dialogue among different Latino groups, thus creating a pan-Hispanic identity. In this article we wish to go a step further and explore whether the Spanish-language newspapers may also reflect, and foster, a second level of intercultural dialogue between the Hispanic and the non-Hispanic communities. In order to carry out this research, a qualitative content analysis approach will be used to study a corpus of issues in two newspapers, El Diario-La Prensa and Hoy. By close reading and observation of the different elements present in them, both textual and visual, we will extract the most relevant aspects and give some examples to show that this second level is present in the media analysed.