Reversal of linguistic fortune: dimensions of language conflict in autonomous Catalonia

Vann, Robert E

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“…Given the large proportion of Spanish native speakers, there has always been a large community readily constructed as victims of this claimed “reversal of linguistic fortune” in Vann's () words. Yet these charges have had less impact in that community than might be expected.…”

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

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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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“…The two decades from 1983 to 2003 saw a boomlet in publications on the sociolinguistics of Catalan‐Spanish bilingualism in Catalonia (e.g. Pla 1983; Bastardas 1985, 1986; Woolard 1989, 1991, 1999, 2003; Tusón 1990; Woolard and Gahng 1990; Boix 1993, 1999; Doyle 1996; Báez de Aguilar González 1997; Pujolar i Cos 1997a, 1997b, 1999, 2001; Vann 1999; Pradilla 2001; Strubell 2001; Turell 2001; de Rosselló i Peralta 2003). These studies assessed the impact of Linguistic Normalization, a policy implemented with the return of democracy and autonomy in 1978.…”

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Normalizing bilingualism:The effects of the Catalonian linguistic normalization policy one generation after¹

Newman

Trenchs-Parera

2008

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This study examines the evolution of language attitudes of linguistically diverse adolescents in urban Catalonia a generation after the instauration of Linguistic Normalization, official language policies favoring Catalan. Woolard (1984, 1989) and Woolard and Gahng's (1990) classic Catalan/Spanish matched guise studies are used as a baseline. Current data come from a modified and expanded replication of those original studies. Findings show: (1) differences in attitudes between youths of Spanish and Catalan background have softened; (2) disparities in Status and Solidarity have evened out; (3) language choice can be highly gendered; and (4) bilingual proficiency is now valued by and for both communities. The support for bilingualism and the easing of divisions are understood as signs of increased 'linguistic cosmopolitanism,' a stance that looks beyond parochial own-group communities and favors bridging linguistic boundaries. The significance is that minority languages can be valued when they take on such symbolic roles.

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Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives

Davidson

2019

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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Building off a series of matched guise studies focused on attitudes toward native-like (L1) and accented (L2) Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia, Spain (Woolard, 1984, 1989, 2009, 2011; Woolard & Gahng, 1990), this study explores covert and overt attitudes toward two specific phonetic features of Catalonian Spanish, namely lateral velarization and intervocalic /s/ voicing. Catalan-Spanish Barcelonan bilinguals and Madrid Spanish monolinguals (N = 54) completed a matched guise task eliciting covert judgments toward each phenomenon independently. Results from the matched guise, in combination with elicited overt attitudes from sociolinguistic interviews, demonstrate how broader linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward the Spanish language can be comprised from an aggregate set of individual speech variants and the distinct social values afforded to each of them.

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Reversal of linguistic fortune: dimensions of language conflict in autonomous Catalonia

Cited by 6 publications

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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

Normalizing bilingualism:The effects of the Catalonian linguistic normalization policy one generation after¹

Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives

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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

Normalizing bilingualism:The effects of the Catalonian linguistic normalization policy one generation after1

Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives

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