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The media have an important persuasive power over the audience. One of the most relevant media phenomena in recent years was Brexit. The objective of this study is to find out the editorial position of the Spanish press in relation to the actors of Brexit (European Union and United Kingdom). To do this, a lexical analysis based on the Frame Semantics was carried out. The results of the investigation shown that Spanish newspapers maintained a pro-European stance throughout the entire Brexit process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information in the press may reflect a certain informative bias in the published texts. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyze what was the discursive construction that the Spanish economic press made of the term ‘Brexit’. To do this, a lexical-semantic analysis, based on the study of the semantic prosody of the nouns co-occurring with ‘Brexit’, was carried out. The results shown that the Spanish economic press present a mainly neutral editorial stance when reporting on Brexit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]