Javier García León
List of John Benjamins publications in which Javier García León is involved.
Articles
2025 Linguistic labels of disabled people in Colombian news outlets: An exploratory corpus-based study Spanish in Context 22:3, pp. 487–516 | Article
Disability can be understood as a (subtle) physical and/or mental condition, or as a representation of legal, medical, and media discourses that construct non-normative bodies as deviant. Language plays an essential role in the construction of disability through, for example, the use of… read more
2023 A corpus-based discourse analysis of transgender labels in the Spanish-speaking press Journal of Language and Sexuality 12:2, pp. 227–257 | Article
Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing coverage of transgender people in Latin American and Spanish media. However, there are very few research studies that thoroughly examine the increasing use of terms such as transgender “transgénero” and trans in Spanish-speaking press. This… read more