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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
Paper panel 19 – Journalism in Spain & Portugal
Tuesday, July 5th 10.30 - 12.00 (Room 3)
European press representations of the Basque sovereignist plan
Cristina Perales García, Laura Filardo Llamas, Ludivine Thouverez
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Communication Department), Torelló
(Barcelona), Spain
This paper will analyse the national and international representation on the media of
the only statutory and sovereignty-based proposal within democratic Spain, known as
“Ibarretxe Plan”. This proposal was discussed on the Parliament on February 1, 2005,
and it was arranged around 10 issues, which eventually proposed a new political pact
within the Spanish state.
We will study those media representations of the Ibarretxe Plan– and therefore of the
Basque question – which can be found in two of the most important newspapers in
Spain (El Pais and El Mundo), France (Le Monde and Libération) and the British Isles
(The Irish News and The Telegraph).
In this research the media are understood as political actors whose actions have an
influence on how conflicts evolve (as they can either increase or decrease conflictperception).
This can be done by means of the (de)legitimisation of both the
discursively implied participants and the actions done by them. The discourses found
within these newspapers usually follow a polarization strategy which results from the
positive or negative representation of certain social groups.
We will analyse news and editorials published in the six mentioned newspapers
between January 31 and February 2, 2005. A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
approach will be followed in order to uncover how ideological beliefs are spread and
whether they are dependent on power abuse by any of the selected newspapers.
This article is part of the research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science
and Innovation CSO2010-20047, “The media construction of political and territorial
conflicts in Spain: a study on discourses and narratives”.
The case of Paritary Parliament: Media visibility of the strategies of the
Portuguese parliamentary deputies during the Cavaquismo period (1991/95)
Cabrera, Ana
Centro de Investigação Media Jornalismo/Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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