Media coverage of the RAE's report on inclusive language in the Spanish Constitution

Abstract

In July 2018, the socialist government asked the Spanish Royal Academy for a report on a possible wording of the Spanish Constitution with inclusive language, a report that was published on 16 January 2020. The aim of this article is to analyse the media impact in the Spanish press of both the news about the request for the report (2018) and the report itself (2020) and to demonstrate how the information focused by the headlines, the lexical selection, the elements of assessment and the people who interact in them can condition public opinion and further contribute to the polarisation of the existing debate between Academia and Feminism. For this purpose, we have analysed a corpus of 216 Spanish digital press texts obtained from the DISMUPREN database. The analysis shows that ideological biases exist not only in opinion journalism, but also in the news.