17. Dialectalismos en la lexicografía catalana

“Serving God, Fatherland, and Language”: Alcover, Catalan, and Science

“…Taking into account that the content and meaning of those terms did not stay constant over the course of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, the aim of this article is to explore the relationship established by Alcover between them, and the extent to which the reconfiguration of the identity of these concepts became intermingled with the construction of a Catalan national identity. Unlike other valuable contributions centered on his life (Moll ; Massot i Muntaner ; Janer Manila ; Veny i Clar ; Moll Marquès ; Valriu Llinàs ), his relationship with science (March Noguera ), his philological work (Julià i Muné , ; Colón Domènech ; Perea ; Corbera Pou ), and his folktales (Grimalt and Guiscafrè ; Valriu Llinàs ; Gelabert i Miró ), we will complete this panorama by claiming that Alcover's philological projects are grounded on a worldview whereby religion, language, nation, and science have to be jointly analyzed. As a matter of fact, Alcover, for instance, organized and presided over the First International Conference on the Catalan Language in 1906, and was henceforth dubbed the Apostle of Catalan Language.…”