Presència de les varietats dialectals del català als mitjans de comunicació audiovisuals

Abstract

El treball quantifica la presència dels geolectes catalans als mitjans audiovisuals a partir d’un corpus de quinze hores i ofereix entrevistes semiestructurades a lingüistes i periodistes dels mitjans. L’anàlisi demostra que el català central és el més parlat als mitjans per motius geogràfics i demogràfics.This paper analyses the presence of geographical varieties of the Catalan language in Catalan television and radio channels. Traditionally it has been argued that the non-central Catalan varieties have very low representation in the Catalan media, and also that some people want them not to be spoken in the media. From this premise, and also because previous research on /nthat topic has not given specific data, this paper tries to provide actual figures about the representation and the role of Catalan dialects in the media. In order to fill thisacademic gap,it/noffers a quantitative analysis based on a representative corpus withmore than fifteen hours of television and radio programmes. Interventions in each of the dialects are quantified taking as variables of study the role of the speaker, the program me genre and the channel on which it is broadcast. The study is complemented qualitatively with four semi-structured interviews with /nlinguists of the most important Catalan media and two other journalists who speak non-central varieties. The results of this paper show that the central Catalan is the most spoken one /nin these media, but also that the presence of other varieties is not negligible. The causes of this fact /ncan be found in the demographic weight of the areas where central Catalan is spoken and also in /nthe location of the headquarte rs of the different analysed media.