<h2>Board of Examiners:</h2>

ARMENTIA VIZUETE JOSE IGNACIO (Chairperson)<br>BIDEGAIN CASTET CHARLES (Member)<br>GARZIA GARMENDIA JOSE RAMÓN (Member)<br>APALATEGI IDIRIN UR (Member)<br>BASTERRETXEA POLO JOSE INAZIO (Secretary)

<h2>Location:</h2>

UPV/EHU LIBRARY

<h2>Summary:</h2>

This thesis analyzes the presence of Euskara (the Basque language) in the bilingual contemporary nationalist press. To this end, both the most relevant socio-linguistic literature about bilingualism and all aspects related to the six publications subject to study have been analyzed.&nbsp; Once the available information was gathered, we then examined the presence of Euskara in them, reaching the following conclusions: the weight of articles expressing opinions written in Euskara is greater than is customary in normalized languages, which is due to the under-use of the Basque language when writing news articles; articles in Euskara are very often confined to Basque-related themes, which is a way of condemning Euskara to a type of ghetto - this conclusion is reinforced by the trend towards placing such articles in certain sections; moreover, such articles are of little relevance; lastly, in the publications subject to scrutiny, the Basque language has always been in a situation in which its presence has steadily decreased in all and every one of these publications, all of which leads us to conclude that the model of a bilingual press is a blind alley for the Basque language, whereby we are committed to laying the foundations of a communications medium that is entirely in Euskara.