Abstract

MAHI, Wisem. Catalonia-Spain Conflict: ACD of photographs issued on 1-O in Catalonia. Polít. globalidad. ciudad. [online]. 2023, vol.9, n.17, pp.93-111.  Epub Oct 06, 2023. ISSN 2395-8448.  https://doi.org/10.29105/pgc9.17-4.

This article aimed to produce an analytical guide for the journalistic discourse on the day of the illegal referendum in Catalonia, on October 1st, 2017, and analyze four images of two national newspapers in Spain. The method of critical analysis of the speech of the Dutch linguist Teun Van Dijk was applied, to confirm the hypothesis that the photograph in the press represents the national identity of a people, with the technique of discursive analysis the type of research is descriptive. It has been intended here to highlight four photographs of the newspaper “El País” and “eldiario” captured during the day of the illegal referendum in Catalonia, the 1-0. The four representative images of the purpose raised above, belonging to two Spanish newspapers, one traditional and the other digital. It was founded that the images that have been circulated in the media about the Catalan process have served to give a social contextualization of the event.

Keywords : Critical analysis of speech; polices charges; photojournalism; the Catalan referendum; national identity.