Differential Linguistic Features in U.S. Immigration Newspaper Articles: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis Using the Gramulator

Our corpus comprises 752 texts, culled from newspapers of U.S. border states (approximately 75 texts per state). Immigration is a national issue in the United States; Because four states border Mexico, we selected four however, regional implications differ because of matching states (of the 11) that border Canada. To do so, immigrants' varying effects on local economies. These we considered the following criteria for all 15 terrestrial implications are made manifest in the reportage of local border states: total population, immigrant population, newspapers, which, while ostensibly portraying length of international border, and political leaning. These "objective" language, may reveal the narrative of local data were input into a custom PERL script designed to perspectives on national issues.