This study analyses the discursive construction of the defendant in a corpus of twelve criminal court rulings on chemsex (39,856 words) issued by the Provincial Court of Madrid (2023–2025). Using Fillmore’s frame Semantics and Sbisà’s taxonomy of presupposition triggers, two AI systems (Claude and ChatGPT) independently annotated eight frames across three functional levels: criminal act, institutional apparatus, and accused subject. Cohen’s κ reveals a differentiated pattern: substantial for Substance, Commerce and Suspicion (κ = 0.66–0.68), moderate for Possession, Criminal_investigation, Being_at_risk and Body_description (κ = 0.49–0.58), and weak for Evidence (κ = 0.39). From a corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this gradation is interpreted as the quantitative indicator of normalization mechanisms operating through implicit presuppositional structures, through the lens of the Foucauldian notion of veridiction and queer criminology.

(2026). Hacer visible lo implícito: la construcción discursiva del acusado en sentencias sobre chemsex mediante marcos, presuposición e IA generativa [journal article - articolo]. In CÍRCULO DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA A LA COMUNICACIÓN. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/335565

Hacer visible lo implícito: la construcción discursiva del acusado en sentencias sobre chemsex mediante marcos, presuposición e IA generativa

Garofalo, Giovanni
2026-01-24

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This study analyses the discursive construction of the defendant in a corpus of twelve criminal court rulings on chemsex (39,856 words) issued by the Provincial Court of Madrid (2023–2025). Using Fillmore’s frame Semantics and Sbisà’s taxonomy of presupposition triggers, two AI systems (Claude and ChatGPT) independently annotated eight frames across three functional levels: criminal act, institutional apparatus, and accused subject. Cohen’s κ reveals a differentiated pattern: substantial for Substance, Commerce and Suspicion (κ = 0.66–0.68), moderate for Possession, Criminal_investigation, Being_at_risk and Body_description (κ = 0.49–0.58), and weak for Evidence (κ = 0.39). From a corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this gradation is interpreted as the quantitative indicator of normalization mechanisms operating through implicit presuppositional structures, through the lens of the Foucauldian notion of veridiction and queer criminology.
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24-gen-2026
El presente estudio analiza la construcción discursiva del acusado en un corpus de doce sentencias penales sobre chemsex (39 856 palabras) dictadas por la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid (2023–2025). Mediante la semántica de marcos de Fillmore y la taxonomía de activadores presuposicionales de Sbisà, dos sistemas de IA (Claude y ChatGPT) anotaron de forma independiente ocho frames en tres niveles funcionales: acto delictivo, dispositivo institucional y sujeto acusado. Los índices de acuerdo interanotador (κ de Cohen) revelan un patrón diferenciado: sustancial para Substance, Commerce y Suspicion (κ = 0.66–0.68), moderado para Possession, Criminal_investigation, Being_at_risk y Body_description (κ = 0.49–0.58), y débil para Evidence (κ = 0.39). Desde el Análisis Crítico del Discurso asistido por corpus, esta gradación se interpreta como indicio cuantitativo de mecanismos de normalización que operan mediante estructuras presuposicionales implícitas, a la luz de la noción foucaultiana de la veridicción y de la criminología queer.
Garofalo, Giovanni
(2026). Hacer visible lo implícito: la construcción discursiva del acusado en sentencias sobre chemsex mediante marcos, presuposición e IA generativa [journal article - articolo]. In CÍRCULO DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA A LA COMUNICACIÓN. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/335565
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