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Subtitle: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780190258627
Subjects: Catalan language; Spanish language; Language policy
Description: A surging movement for Catalan political independence from Spain has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. This book develops a framework for analysing ideologies of linguistic authority and uses it to illuminate the politics of language in Catalonia, where Catalan jostles with Castilian for legitimacy.