A study by Pompeu Fabra University that has analyzed the State's written press for ten years shows that the language discourses of conservative Spanish media "generate and perpetuate an image of negativization towards the Catalan language, because they link it to concepts such as closed-mindedness, radicalism, lack of freedom, lack of democracy, coercion and obligation," explains Dr. Vicent Climent Ferrando, professor in the translation department at UPF and one of the authors of the study together with Albert Morales.

After the latest data was releasedSurvey of Linguistic Uses of the Population It is clear that the Catalan language's recovery must involve providing it with clear rules for its use. I am not referring, of course, to grammatical rules, but to political rules. The most important would be to make its knowledge as mandatory as Spanish. To live and work in Catalonia, it is necessary to know Catalan.

Joan Pujolar, professor of sociolinguistics at the UOC (Olot, 1964), is one of the leading specialists in the construction of identity through language. In recent years, he has focused his research on new Catalan speakers: who they are, how they change languages, why, and what recognition they receive from the community. On Saturday, October 25, he will participate in the seminar Semicircles organized by the Platform for Language with a timely presentation on Catalan, immigration and social cohesion.