Le cadrage des débats linguistiques dans la presse anglophone et francophone au Québec : un clivage médiatique? : analyse de la couverture du projet de loi 14

The author analyzed the coverage of the Parti Québécois government's Bill 14 by ten Quebec newspapers during a fifty week period. Bill 14, officially titled "An Act to Amend the Charter of the French Language, the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and Other Legislative Provisions," was introduced in December 2012 and recinded by the government in November 2013. The English language newspapers reviewed were The Gazette (Montreal), The Record (Sherbrooke), and the Suburban (Montreal's West Island). Using a mixed method, which combined a computer-assisted and a qualitative analysis using a frame matrix, the author identified linguistic, social, political, pragmatic and sovereignist frames. Her results show that four of these frames were used by both French- and English-language newspapers and that the media partially took up discourses from the other language community. However, the author notes that the two groups prefer different frames and articulate them differently. She concludes that the rapprochement of Anglophone and Francophone media in Quebec is thus limited, among other things, by diverging historic experiences and activism by community newspapers.

Master's Thesis

Université de Montréal

Montréal

2021

viii-114-xi p.

fr