Galician Language Planning and Implications for Regional Identity: Restoration or Elimination?

Beswick, Jaine

doi:10.1080/1460894022000026123

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“…quisiera hablar con el dueño), in which quisiese is not permissible (though the conditional querría would be accepted), and the few remaining indicative uses of cantara, most commonly found in journalistic language (Carbonero Cano 1990;Rojo & Vázquez Rozas 2014). However, even these exceptional contexts show evidence of overlap between the two forms; Day (2011, in Rosemeyer & Schwenter 2019 and Lunn (1995) report some cantase use in modal and politeness verbs, and fully non-subjunctive uses have also been reported (Bejarano 1962, Hermerén 1992. In any case, these exceptions are not considered in the present study.…”

Section: Cantara/cantase As a Site Of Contact-induced Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Perception versus production of contact-induced cantase in Galician Spanish

Anderson

2020

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Though the existence of effects of Galician-Castilian contact on patterns of language use in Galicia have been well-documented, the exact scope and consequence of these effects is difficult to determine. This is due in part to the complex attitudes, both positive and negative, toward the Galician language. Because of this, societal reception of influences of Galician on Castilian –such as a heightened use of the verbal morpheme -se– is not easily predictable, even though the form enjoys greater use in Galicia than elsewhere in the Spanish-speaking world. This study explores attitudes of 39 Galicians from the province of Pontevedra toward the production of the ‑se form, as well as how these attitudes impact participants’ production of the form. Results indicate that the Galician-influenced form ‑se is more prestigious than the ‑ra form that is more common outside of Galicia, though whether participants correctly perceive which form is influenced by the minority language is unclear.

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Section: Cantara/cantase As a Site Of Contact-induced Changementioning

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Perception versus production of contact-induced cantase in Galician Spanish

Anderson

2020

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“…For instance, Galicians tend to speak their regional language at home while using Spanish in public because they perceive it to be more distinguished (Beswick, 2002). Or, as one Galician newspaper editor told me, the languagemixing can occur almost randomly: ''If you go into a café and order coffee in Galician, the guy behind the counter will respond to you in Spanish, and then when he yells your order to the kitchen, he'll do it in Galician.''…”

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News, Nationalism, and the Imagined Community

Lewis¹

2008

Journalism Studies

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“…After the Lusitanian portion of Iberia south of the river Minho was granted independence in the mid-1100s, Galego began to evolve separately from Portuguese and to develop its own vocabulary and orthography (Freixeiro Mato, 2000). The 12th through the 14th centuries are considered the Golden Age of Galician literature; during this time, the language was used extensively throughout the peninsula as the dominant lyrical tongue (Beswick, 2002).…”

Section: Galiciamentioning

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“…While never penetrating the private sphere of familial communication, Spanish nonetheless became the leading language of church and state in Galicia. Inevitably, Galego was influenced by the commingling of the two languages from the 16th century on, and consequently modern varieties of Galego and Spanish exhibit 'maximum overlapping' (Beswick, 2002). 8 Following 200 years of steady decline, during the 19th century Galego reemerged as a literary language.…”

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Language Politics and Regional Nationalist Mobilization in Galicia and Wales

Morgan

2006

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Marshaling original data from surveys and interviews with regional nationalist party activists, this article compares language politics in two ‘stateless’ European nations with strong regional identities: Galicia (Spain) and Wales (UK). In Galicia, where the regional language is widely spoken, the nationalist party places significant emphasis on language-related issues. Yet in Wales, despite the minority status of Welsh, the political arm of the nationalist movement assumes a restrained stance toward the regional language. What explains the apparent paradox that mobilization on language grounds is more pronounced where language is least threatened? The article concludes that Galicia and Wales differ in the way that language functions in society, which, in turn, conditions the possibilities for deploying language politically. It is more difficult for the nationalist party Plaid Cymru to mobilize on the Welsh question given the language’s recent revival and the current recruitment objectives of the party. In Galicia, not only are the recruitment needs of the comparable nationalist party, the Bloque, less complex than in the Welsh case, but the perception of threat to the regional language is far greater.

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Galician Language Planning and Implications for Regional Identity: Restoration or Elimination?

Cited by 47 publications

References 8 publications

Perception versus production of contact-induced cantase in Galician Spanish

Perception versus production of contact-induced cantase in Galician Spanish

News, Nationalism, and the Imagined Community

Language Politics and Regional Nationalist Mobilization in Galicia and Wales

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