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22 - Social Work and Social Policy
University of the West of Scotland
La constitución española y la metáfora de la
violencia
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