La política lingüística educativa en torno al catalán desde los titulares de prensa: Un análisis léxico-semántico y discursivo

Abstract

The aim of this article is to do a lexical semantic and discursive analysis of a corpus of three hundred headlines from the digital press, which, by using war metaphors, characterises the disagreements arisen in Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands owing to the establishment of educational linguistic policies, which, supposedly, favour the Catalan language to the detriment of the Spanish. Additionally, this research intended to verify whether the results of the corpus analysis could be interrelated to ideological issues, such as the hierarchical organization of languages in Spain and linguistic nationalism. The conclusions drawn are that there is a convergence of political interests, to which the press contributes, with the objective of characterising in a conflicting way the linguistic policies from autonomous communities in which the Catalan language is co-official.