Policies Governing the Use of Languages in Relations between the Authorities and the Public

Mayans, Isidor Marí

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“…The long-standing positioning of the French language as fundamental to sovereignty and nation-building is perpetuated through legislation serving as an institutional dimension that, in the main, negatively impacts upon RMLs. In Spain, the formal constitutional framework, the 1978 Constitution, similarly reinforces Castilian (Mayans, 2011). Beyond this, some examples further affirm the potential importance of the party system at the state level as an institutional factor influencing language policy choices.…”

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Language policy in multi-level systems: A historical institutionalist analysis

Royles

Lewis

2019

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Efforts are underway to develop a stronger political science perspective regarding the practice of language policy to establish language policy as a distinct field of public policy studies. The article’s original theoretical contribution is to develop a framework, grounded in historical institutionalism, to analyse the multi-level institutional factors that influence language policy choices relating to regional or minority languages within European multi-level states. The framework is tested by applying it to analyse the multi-level factors that condition language policy decisions regarding the Welsh language, and through further investigating the framework’s significance and robustness to analyse language policy trajectories in two contrasting European cases. Overall, the article makes the case for the strengths and adaptability of the framework in producing convincing explanations of the multi-level dimensions of language policy development in different institutionalised contexts and calls for greater investigation of its ability to analyse other regional and minority languages in Europe.

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Language policy in multi-level systems: A historical institutionalist analysis

Royles

Lewis

2019

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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The recent evolution of first languages in Catalonia

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Pradilla

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The case of Catalonia has often been pointed out as a case of success in the field of language policy, based on the improvement in its legal situation, the increase in the number of people who know it, and the extension of its use in certain fields. To contribute to a complete evaluation of the current language policy model in Catalonia, this article assesses the evolution of the first languages of the population over the last fifteen years. The study shows that during this period, despite some oscillations, Catalan has remained in stable numbers of L1 speakers in absolute terms, thanks essentially to very strong patterns of intergenerational transmission in both linguistically homogeneous and mixed couples. However, significant immigration during this period has substantially increased the weight of other languages and, to a lesser degree, Castilian, so that in relative terms Catalan has been reduced as a first language between 2003 and 2018.

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Policies Governing the Use of Languages in Relations between the Authorities and the Public

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Language policy in multi-level systems: A historical institutionalist analysis

Language policy in multi-level systems: A historical institutionalist analysis

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The recent evolution of first languages in Catalonia

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