Mark my words: what lexicometric analysis reveals about the drafts of the New Catalan Statute of Autonomy (2006)

• Autores: Albert Morales Moreno
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 24, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: 13th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, Temple University, Philadelphia), págs. 347-371
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2006, after a long parliamentary process which began in 2002, the current Catalan Statute of Autonomy (an equivalent to regional constitutions in federal states) was approved. Each Catalan parliamentary group (except for the Partit Popular de Catalunya) prepared its own draft of the Statute. These texts fall between legal and political discourse and constitute a genre that has been studied little in the framework of political discourse analysis. The current study considers these draft bills using lexicometrical principles in order to identify the statistically most significant units of each group, minimize the bias that a random selection performed by the researcher might entail, and identify the lexical units that constitute the distinctive vocabulary of every group. Based on lexicometric analysis, the study draws conclusions regarding the characteristic vocabulary used by each political group and the overlapping yet distinct political spaces occupied by each.