Abstract

TORRE CANTALAPIEDRA, Eduardo. Pro-migrant metaphors and persuasion in journalistic discourses about transit migration through Mexico. Comun. soc [online]. 2019, vol.16, e7146.  Epub Nov 30, 2019. ISSN 0188-252X.  https://doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2019i0.7146.

The objective of this paper is to analyze metaphors and their persuasive function in journalistic discourses in favor of migrants in irregular transit through Mexico. To do this, conceptual metaphors used in texts on Central American transit migration in the Mexican national press of 2014 will be analyzed. Likewise, the metaphor is discussed as a mechanism of persuasion through the appeal to emotions.

Keywords : International migration; metaphors; persuasion; emotions; Central American migrants.