Science and technology dissemination discourse in Chilean newspapers: approaching the Corpus DICIPE-2004. Science and technology (C&T) dissemination has become a mayor field of study during last years, initially through the investigation of scientific research articles and more recently through different mass media. Our present research objectives are: a) to determine comparatively the space a group of five 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 of the 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 of 1% from all texts published in the five newspapers studied and that, basically, most of these texts are related to medical sciences, astronomy, astrophysics, and what could be called "life sciences".
specialized written discourse; science and technology dissemination; newspapers; corpus linguistics
