Linguistic choices in an electoral debate: The struggle for linguistic anonymity Authors Víctor Bargiela Zotes Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: linguistic choice, linguistic ideology, anonymous language, political discourse. Abstract This paper explores the linguistic choices of various political candidates based on a quantitative analysis of the interventions in a debate held by TV3 on the occasion of the elections for the Spanish Parliament on November 10, 2019. The linguistic ideologies of the different political parties are studied on the basis of their electoral program and the influence of other factors such as audience design, language loyalty or language convergence in order to determine what conditions linguistic choice in a highly polarized and mediated context. The results show that a turning point was reached in the use of Catalan as the hegemonic, principal and anonymous language in political debate in Catalonia with the emergence of forces that claim Spanish to be the anonymous language, rejecting Catalan as a common language. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Víctor Bargiela Zotes, Universitat de Barcelona Estudiant del Grau de Lingüística de la Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació de la Universitat de Barcelona Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2021-03-29 Issue No. 32 (2022): L'avaluació de les polítiques lingüístiques Section Secció Miscel·lània License Intellectual property Intellectual property in articles belongs to the respective authors. By submitting their articles to TSC to request their publication, authors agree to the following: Authors assign all rights of reproduction, public communication and distribution of articles submitted for publication in TSC to the SCS (a subsidiary of the IEC). Authors are accountable to the SCS for the authorship and originality of their articles. It is the responsibility of authors to obtain permissions to reproduce graphic material sourced from elsewhere and included in their articles. The SCS may not be held liable for any possible violation of intellectual property rights by authors. Material published in TSC is subject - unless otherwise indicated in the text or in graphic material - to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Spain (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) licence, the full text of which can be found at this link. Accordingly, the general public may reproduce, distribute and communicate the article provided the author and publisher are acknowledged and as long as no commercial or derivative use is made of the article. TSC cannot be held responsible for ideas and opinions as expressed by the authors of articles published in the journal.
