Análisis del discurso político y periodístico sobre los proyectos de ley del aborto, divorcio y matrimonio homosexual

Zusammenfassung

This doctoral thesis looks into the media, governments, political leaders and political parties’ treatment of the different parliamentary initiatives on abortion, divorce and homosexual marriage discussed in Spain throughout the current democratic era. We believe that the topics this investigation looks into have drawn forth some very important problems and clashes among political parties, the media and some sectors of Spanish society throughout the historical span we have looked over, which starts with the 1978 Constitution enactment and the beginning of the current democratic era and finishes in 2015. In this investigation, we have analyzed how politicians, journalists and social agents use the language to support parliamentary initiatives, refute them or discredit them in the eyes of public opinion. To carry out this research, we have relied on the framing theory, which analyzes the way a journalistic article is shown to the audience, the contextualization in the media and the political parties’ dialectical claims. Our general purpose is to analyze how the Spanish Press has reported the controversy that abortion, divorce and homosexual marriage have aroused. To this effect, we have analyzed the media treatment of politicians and institutional and social groups’ different views, by studying their published statements. On the other hand, we have looked into public officials, political parties and institutions’ views on these topics, such as the Popular Party (PP), the Spanish Labour Socialist Party (PSOE, in its Spanish acronym), the Catholic Church and others...