Relationship between ideology and language in the Catalan independence context.

ABSTRACT: Political polarization generates strong effects on society, driving controversial debates and influencing the institutions. Territorial disputes are one of the most important polarized scenarios and have been consistently related to the use of language. In this work, we analyzed the opinion and language distributions of a particular territorial dispute around the independence of Catalonia through Twitter data. We infer a continuous opinion distribution by applying a model based on retweet interactions, previously detecting elite users with fixed and antagonist opinions. The resulting distribution presents a mainly bimodal behavior with an intermediate third pole that shows a less polarized society with the presence of not only antagonist opinions. We find that the more active, engaged and

SUBMITTER: Atienza-Barthelemy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6868228 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature