ABSTRACT

On October 1st, 2017 the Spanish government deployed the police in Catalonia to prevent people from voting in what the Spanish government considered an “illegal” referendum. The police actions resulted in 893 [1] reported unarmed citizens injured in an event described by some international media as a case of police brutality. This paper drags from Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) to analyze discourses of normalization embedded in journalist practices in El País, the most widely read paper in the Spanish language [2]. These discursive practices channel extreme positions such as beating and dissolving unarmed citizens who aim to express their opinions by voting into an agenda of acceptable socio-political norm; inevitable actions defined as a constitutional and democratic measure. In the months approaching the “referendum”, El País constructed a case against Catalonia's independence discursively by (1) legitimizing views, ideologies and positions that consider the Catalan's proposal unacceptable, (2) excluding dialogue and (3) propagating anti-pluralist discourses favoring “us” above “them”, which consequently (4) normalized police force as political intervention, justified with the application of the article 155 from the Spanish Constitution. [1] According to the Catalan government and the Catalan Health Department. Retrieve from https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/04/inenglish/1507104937_874487.html [2] Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/436643/mostread-newspapers-in-spain/, http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/es/122/3990/9873 and http://www.prisa.com/en/noticias/noticias-1/elpais-the-worlds-most-widely-read-digital-newspaper-in-spanish-

摘要

2017年10月1日，西班牙政府在加泰罗尼亚部署了警察，以防止人们投票反对西班牙政府认为的“非法”全民投票。警方的行动导致893 [1]报告称，在一些国际媒体描述为一起警察暴行的事件中，手无寸铁的公民受伤。本文从批判性话语研究（CDS）的基础上，分析了在西班牙语最为广泛阅读的ElPaís记者实践中嵌入的规范化话语[2]。这些话语做法引导极端立场，例如殴打和解散手无寸铁的公民，这些人旨在通过投票通过可接受的社会政治规范议程来表达意见；不可避免的行动被定义为一种宪法和民主措施。在接近“公投”的几个月中，埃尔·帕斯（ElPaís）通过（1）使认为加泰罗尼亚的提议不可接受的观点，意识形态和立场合法化，（2）排除对话，以及（3）传播在“他们”之上主张“我们”的反多元主义话语，构造了反对加泰罗尼亚独立的论据。因此，（4）将警察部队规范化为政治干预，并适用西班牙宪法第155条。[1]据加泰罗尼亚政府和加泰罗尼亚卫生署称。取自https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/04/inenglish/1507104937_874487.html [2]取自https://www.statista.com/statistics/436643/mostread-newspapers-in-spain/ ，http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/es/122/3990/9873和http://www.prisa.com/en/noticias/noticias-1/elpais-the-worlds-most-widely用西班牙语阅读数字报纸