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The discursive construction of separation: a study of catalan and Southern Cameroonian independence movements
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Autores:
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Gael Echitchi, Size Raymond
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Tipo de documento:
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texto impreso
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Editorial:
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2018-03-15
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application/pdf
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Nota general:
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Palabras clave:
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Estado = No publicado
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Materia = Humanidades: Filología: Lingüística
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Tipo = Tesis
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Resumen:
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This write-up describes the extent to which secessionist movements use language to create a gap between members of their community and other citizens of the countries they are politically part of. It sets out to investigate the use of language as a weapon in the political war secessionists groups in Catalonia and Southern Cameroons wage. More specifically, this work investigates the different linguistic strategies used to construct separate Catalan and Southern Cameroonian identities and goes on to compare both sets of strategies in order to identify possible similarities and differences that may emerge when going from one group to another.This research work was built on various hypotheses, that is, one general and two specific ones. The general assumption which guided this work is that there are more similarities than differences between the linguistic strategies used by Catalan and Southern Cameroonian independence activists. Furthermore, we assumed that the fight for independence in both territories is not motivated only by political and cultural reasons, but also by economic ones. Then, we implied that differences between Catalan and Southern Cameroonian nationalist discourse could only be the result of political, geographical and cultural differences between both territories...
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En línea:
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https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/51040/1/T40829.pdf
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