Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze how the contemporary French press used language to present Montenegro, through a corpus-based study of articles from five notable journals (Le Figaro, Le Monde, Le Point, L’Obs, L’Express), published over a period of fifteen years, from 2006 to 2021. Lexicometric analysis performed with open source software IRaMuTeQ enabled us to determine the structure of the vocabulary, as well as the salient themes and “lexical worlds” shaped by the French media about Montenegro, since the restoration of its independence in 2006. Fifteen years of reporting revealed three main centers of interest: politics, tourism and sports. The study also revealed how the most common toponyms in the corpus are characterized, how adjectives participate in the intensification of media content and what specificities distinguish the five analyzed journals, regarding the treatment of particular topics and over-use or under-use of some lexical units.