(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-08-31) Günther, Nazira B.
In this paper, we briefly characterize ecolinguistics as a discipline. Then, from the contributions of the Systemic-Functional theory proposed by Halliday (1990; 2004) we reformulate concepts from Supisiche (2019) and from Stibbe's (2020) story-based perspective to analyze the discursive construction of animals in a corpus of fragments of five journalistic news items taken from two online newspapers in Argentina (Infobae and Clarín). In this way, we compare how they construct the non-human animal in their statements and how these constructions reveal and influence the stories we make about these beings and our relationship with them. Our findings indicate that the analysis of the lexical-grammatical structure reveals discursive elements typical of stories destructive to the environment and animals, which reproduce ideologies and evaluations that place humans in a superior hierarchical position with respect to the latter.