Language, Democracy and Devolution in Catalonia

Strubell, Miquel

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“…Legally, bilingualism is implied by the constitutional mandate of co‐official languages in Catalonia; so, the “strong objective” is impossible without political rupture, but the “weak objective” has other attractions. Strubell (:9) notes the widespread preoccupation with avoiding an ethnonationalist construction of Catalan identity, “largely in order to avert the threat of a social and even political division along ethnolinguistic (and probably urban class) lines.” The official motto of a 1982 advertising campaign, for instance, was significantly “ El català , cosa de tots ” (“Catalan, everyone's business”).…”

Section: The Birth Of Catalan Sociolinguistics In the 20th Century Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Policies, Ideologies and Attitudes in Catalonia. Part 1: Reversing Language Shift in the Twentieth Century

Newman

Trenchs-Parera

2015

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This and a paired article to appear in a subsequent issue of this journal review the sociolinguistic and allied research on language attitudes, ideologies and practices in Catalonia in the context of two major sequential official language policies. The present article is devoted to the first policy called Normalització Lingüística (Linguistic Normalization), implemented in 1983 by the autonomous government of Catalonia. The policy was a language planning effort in a then bilingual society to reverse language shift from Catalan to Spanish in the aftermath of a dictatorship and linguistic repression.Our review of the research on that policy shows that language planners assumed modern constructions of languages as bounded units tied to distinct groups. Given the conf lictive history of Spain, they explicitly set out to provide a supportive framework for Catalan that would not overly antagonize the large sector of Catalan society that was at the time mostly monolingual Spanish-speaking. Normalization has been seen as largely successful, but a deeper look at the research shows much of the Catalonian population moving beyond those assumptions; for instance, a number of researchers point to a valuing of bilingualism as indexing a cosmopolitan identity. Even sectors that show more monolinguistic tendencies do so less out of pure ethnolinguistic loyalty than complex intersectionalities and personal ideological stances.The two stories behind each of these periods will be of interest to language planners as well as to researchers interested in the societal and individual challenges and changes emerging from the implementation of official language policies in bilingual and multilingual societies.

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Section: The Birth Of Catalan Sociolinguistics In the 20th Century Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Policies, Ideologies and Attitudes in Catalonia. Part 1: Reversing Language Shift in the Twentieth Century

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Trenchs-Parera

2015

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“…However, it also clearly remains a minority language in relation to the wider Spanish state in which it is situated. Strubell (1998) argues in fact that Catalan is unique within Europe because it is the only language of that size that has managed to survive the last three centuries without actually having a state to back it. It is also the only language in that circumstance that has also not entered into an irreversible demographic decline.…”

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“…By 1970, an education law permitting the teaching of (but not in) Catalan was also proposed but was not actually implemented until 1975, the year of Franco's death (Fishman 1991). These late and limited concessions aside, Franco's "glorioso Movimiento nacional" was clearly a centralist Spanish nationalist movement that had as a key aim the repression of Catalan, and its replacement with Castilian Spanish or "la lengua del Imperio" (Strubell 1998).…”

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Language Rights: The “Cinderella” Human Right

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2011

Journal of Human Rights

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In the last 60 years, we have seen the growing development and articulation of human rights, particularly within international law and within and across supranational organizations. However, in that period, the right to maintain one's language(s), without discrimination, remains peculiarly underrepresented and/or problematized as a key human right. This is primarily because the recognition of language rights presupposes recognizing the importance of wider group memberships and social contexts; conceptions that ostensibly militate against the primacy of individual rights in the post-Second World War era. Drawing on theoretical debates in political theory and international law, as well as the substantive empirical example of Catalonia, this article argues that language rights can and should be recognized as an important human right.

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“…and English (Woolard 1989;Hoffmann 1991;Fishman 1991;Strubell 1998;Fishman 2000;Atkinson 2000a;Atkinson 2000b;Mar-Molinero 2000;O'Donnell 2000;Pujolar 2000;Turrell 2000, etc. ) …”

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Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns

Atkinson¹

2006

JLP

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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, divides the World Wide Web geographically, assigning country suffixes to states to be used in web addresses for sites on their territory. This paper reports on the campaign in Catalonia to have the right to use .ct as the territorial domain name for sites in Catalonia. The bid has been countered by the central government in Madrid and the argument is ongoing. In the interim, ICANN have assigned the .cat suffix. This recognises the linguistic, cultural and ethnic group as a web entity without going as far as to give them the same web standing as a sovereign state.

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Language, Democracy and Devolution in Catalonia

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Language Policies, Ideologies and Attitudes in Catalonia. Part 1: Reversing Language Shift in the Twentieth Century

Language Policies, Ideologies and Attitudes in Catalonia. Part 1: Reversing Language Shift in the Twentieth Century

Language Rights: The “Cinderella” Human Right

Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns

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