La representación de voces y actores sociales colectivos en la prensa a través de etnónimos: el caso de ‘catalanes’ y ‘españoles’

Abstract

This study analyzes the use of the ethnonyms ‘Catalan’ and ‘Spanish’ in the Catalan and Spanish press before and after the October 1, 2017 referendum. Based on a journalistic corpus, it examines their role in identity construction, their semantic prosody, and discursive and ideological contexts. The findings show that these terms are not used in a stereotypical manner and that the notion of a ‘collective voice’ is a manipulable discursive construction, mediated by journalistic narratives that can exert forms of silencing.