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La crisis financiera resultado de la de las subprime norteamericana supone un revés para la economía europea que aún afecta a numerosos países europeos. El Banco Central Europeo (BCE), como institución clave de la política monetaria, es uno de los agentes principales que configura el discurso neoliberal financiero europeo. Un análisis lexicométrico previo de nuestro corpus, que incluye los discursos de los presidentes del BCE (periodo 2003-2016), nos permitió identificar el término sovereignty como forma específica de algunos años. Este trabajo se propone analizar de qué modo el BCE justifica la cesión de la soberanía (financiera, nacional...) de los Estados a favor de la UE y de sus instituciones, y a qué apela dicha institución cuando emplea un concepto clave del discurso público por su alto valor simbólico: la soberanía. En resumen, de qué manera el BCE, “emperador ilícito de Europa” (Bouchard 2013), marca sus pautas de dominación económica. Así pues, en este artículo nos proponemos analizar cuantitativa (con el programa Lexico 3.6) y cualitativamente las formas relativas a dicha familia (sovereignty, sovereignties, sovereign, sovereigns) para ver su evolución a lo largo de los discursos de los presidentes de dicha institución. Hemos tomado como punto de partida la práctica y teoría del análisis del discurso, y se ha estudiado el contexto de los términos seleccionados. The financial crisis stemming from the US subprime mortgage meltdown represented a setback for the European economy that still affects many European countries. The European Central Bank (ECB), a key monetary policy institution, is one of the major actors shaping European neoliberal financial discourse. An earlier lexicometric analysis of a corpus of speeches delivered by ECB presidents between 2003 and 2016 revealed a high specificity index for the term sovereignty in certain years. This article aims to analyze how the ECB justifies transferring, inter alia, financial and national sovereignty to the European Union and its institutions and what the ECB refers to when utilizing this highly symbolic concept from public discourse. Ultimately, this work aims to determine how the ECB, “Europe’s illicit emperor” (Bouchard 2013), frames its discourse of economic domination. Consequently, this article quantitatively (using Lexico 3.6) and qualitatively analyses the various forms in this lexical family (sovereignty, sovereignties, sovereign, sovereigns) to assess how they have evolved over time in the speeches given by ECB presidents. It adopts a methodology steeped in the theory and practice of discourse analysis, studying the contexts in which the selected terms appear in order to shed light on the implications of these changing backdrops.

Access to information on competencies demanded by companies may be performed by a prospective study of job offers posted by employers. But, these include a large amount of quantitative and qualitative but mainly textual data, so an appropriate approach should be chosen in order to obtain a detailed knowledge of competencies in certain areas and professional profiles. The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of the competencies required to HR professionals both generally and in terms of different job profiles in this area. The identification of competencies is accomplished by the application of statistical methods to automatically processed texts, which dispenses with previous categorization of competences in order to preserve the texts in their native format. The research is based on a textual corpus on "Soft Competencies", which has been built from hundreds of job offers for HR professionals, posted by either recruitment consultants or direct employers within the labor Spanish market. After a process of standardization and lemmatization of the textual corpus, the key terms on HR soft competencies has been drawn and thus the overall most requested competencies. Likewise, combining the textual information about competencies with qualitative data concerning job profiles, modal texts may be determined and different competency profiles can be outlined. Finally, the visualization of the associations between soft competencies and HR job profiles has been carried out by means of a Correspondence Analysis of an aggregated lexical table.