El antepresente de noticias recientes en la prensa digital española/"Hot news" Present Perfect in the Spanish digital press

The aim of this paper is to study the use of the "«hot news» Present Perfect" in the Spanish digital press as it appears in 39 articles of several online newspapers. Stress is laid on the combination of Simple Past and Present Perfect forms in these texts, their productivity and performanc...

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Published in:RILCE 2015-05, Vol.31 (2), p.341
Main Author: Torres, Susana Azpiazu
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Journalism
Productivity
Spanish language
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Summary:The aim of this paper is to study the use of the "«hot news» Present Perfect" in the Spanish digital press as it appears in 39 articles of several online newspapers. Stress is laid on the combination of Simple Past and Present Perfect forms in these texts, their productivity and performance. The results are also compared with the same occurrences in the American Spanish online press. We conclude that the hot news Perfect is a special type of Present Perfect which functions as a stylistic resource in the Spanish digital press, but is non-existent in the American one. It does not correspond exactly to the "recent past" Present Perfect, with which it is often linked, for its main function is not to narrate recent facts but to focus on current events, leaving the events in the Past Simple form in the background.
ISSN:0213-2370
2174-0917