Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / Diferentes investigaciones han sido realizadas en relación con la Colonia Británica en Chile, poniendo un especial énfasis en los paradigmas culturales que desafiaba la llegada colonial británica a Valparaíso (Pinochet-Valdivieso, 2012). Sin embargo, la carencia de estudio del rol del inmigrante en la construcción de la sociedad chilena refleja ser producto de una cultura masculina-dominante, la cual ha moldeado las visiones en que las investigaciones han sido llevadas a cabo durante las últimas décadas. El propósito de esta investigación es el de describir, desde una perspectiva de género, el cómo la mujer fue retratada en diferentes ediciones de The Chilian Times, 1885. Para ello, hemos decidido trabajar desde la Lingüística Sistémico Funcional propuesta por Halliday (1982). Una metodología de investigación mixta fue utilizada para el análisis particular de tres meses del año 1885, con el propósito de estudiar el desarrollo de la figura femenina en el periódico. De acuerdo con los resultados principales, las diferentes evaluaciones hacia la figura femenina revelan el funcionamiento de los roles de género en la sociedad como un producto fuertemente cargado de prejuicios, que no sólo entregan una construcción viciada a la identidad de la mujer en los medios masivos, pero que también ha afectado a su representación en la esfera pública. Adicionalmente, esta investigación provee abundantes aspectos relacionados con la Colonia Británica, que nos permiten estudiar cómo la representación femenina en los medios masivos era solo una parte del problema estructural que significa la constante lucha por la validación en la sociedad chilena. / Some research has been done in relation to the relevance of the British colony in Chile, placing emphasis on the cultural paradigms that were challenged in Valparaíso with the arrival of the British (Pinochet-Valdivieso, 2012). Nevertheless, there are still some gaps in the study of the immigrants’ role in the construction of Chilean society as a result of a male-dominant culture that has shaped the way research has been approached during the last few decades. The purpose of this piece of research is to provide a gender perspective on the portrayal of women in 1885 in the British newspaper’s The Chilian Times by means of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (1982) approach to language. A mixed research methodology was applied for the analysis of the three months selected from 1885 in order to study the progressive development of the female figure in the newspapers. According to some of our main findings, the different evaluations of the female figure unveil the operation of gender roles as a product of deeply rooted prejudices that did not only give rise to a biased construction of women’s identity in the mass media, but also affected their representation in the public sphere. Additionally, this piece of research also provides several aspects of the British colony that allow us to study how female representation in mass media was only one side of a more structural struggle for recognition in the Chilean society.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / The present research intends to depict the way in which women were described in other British newspaper The Chilian Times before and after the 1906 earthquake in Valparaiso, highlighting the shift they experienced as objects in this context. Due to the recent origins of the field of discourse analysis, and to the diversity of issues involved–gender, social movements, historical context and linguistics–different perspectives were applied with the intention of covering the issues involved in the analysis. Thus, the framework presented includes appraisal theory or the study of the language of evaluation in context as purposed by Martin and Rose (2008), Halliday (2014), and gender studies in the case of Litosseliti and Sunderland (2002). To develop the study, articles from the local news section of The Chilian Times were selected from January to December 1906, each one of them presenting women in their texts, an essential condition to be part of the corpus. The selected samples were eclectically analyzed using the above mentioned theoretical and methodological approaches mentioned to portray women as objects in the articles. After the categorization of the discursive markers that revealed the attitude of the newspaper towards women, the results revealed a marked shift of the newspaper’s perspective on women after the natural disaster in 1906, presenting them in a positive way, and even as protagonists in some of the articles.