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22 - Social Work and Social Policy
University of the West of Scotland
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Article title
La constitución española y la metáfora de la
violencia
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Sociedad y Discurso
Article number
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Volume number
19
Issue number
26 20
First page of article
26
ISSN of journal
1601-1686
Year of publication
2011
URL
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Number of additional authors
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Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article studies the metaphors employed by the Spanish press in the interpretation of the Spanish political system on the thirtieth anniversary of the 1978 Constitution. The analysis reveals the dominant use of the metaphor of violence. The Right accused the Socialist Government and its catalanist and left-wing allies of breaking the Consensus of Transition by means of the new Catalan Statute and the Law of Historical Memory; peripheral nationalists blamed the State and the Constitution itself. An interpretation is offered of the ideological function of this metaphor, which, according to opinion polls, is not echoed amongst the general public
