The compatriot pride. Discourse, ideology and banal nationalism in "El País"

Abstract

This paper presents a sociological analysis of content from newspaper El País through which we explain the case of what we’ve called the “compatriot pride”, namely, the exportation of the na-tional identity beyond the state frontiers and the pride-feeling that it's pretend to reproduce through the information in the own country -Spain, in this case. We’ve did this with the different theoretical tools that Michael Billig offers with his concept of “banal nationalism”, and many others concepts from the discourse analysis and rhetoric. What this study pretends is to enrich the (what we think it is) work of the sociologist: break up with common sense and pull out the unseen prac-tices from the oblivion.