DOIAbstract
In the twentieth century States have made particular use of the ideology of nationalism to legitimize their power. This ideology uses a polysémie lexicon with affective connotations and carries with it varied and changing significations of inclusion and precise and definite values of exclusion and negation. It is used to construct a myth. This study attempts to verify the existence of these properties in the lexicon of Quebec nationalism. In the first part of our study, after examining the development in Europe of the language of nationalism and outlining the political context of the confrontation between Quebec and Ottawa, we present a corpus of Quebec nationalistic texts and the methods and hypotheses used to study them. In the second par...
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