SAMPLE OF CATALAN PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE (2012)

The project’s main aim is to explore the relationship between the use of discourse and modal markers and the expression of ideology in parliamentary discourse. The corpus analyzed includes two Plenary Investiture Sessions: (i) the debate held in the Parliament of Catalonia on 20 and 21 December, 2012, by which Artur Mas was re-elected as the president of Catalonia's Regional Government (Generalitat de Catalunya), and (ii) the debate held on 10 January, 2016, by which Carles Puigdemont was elected as the president of Catalonia.