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Singular and Plural - Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia (Hardcover)
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Singular and Plural - Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia (Hardcover)
Series: Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
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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
analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and uses it to
illuminate the politics of language in Catalonia, where Catalan
jostles with Castilian for legitimacy. Kathryn Woolard's
longitudinal research across decades of political autonomy
contextualizes this ethnographic study of the social meaning of
Catalan in the 21st century. Part I lays out the ideologies of
linguistic authenticity, anonymity, and naturalism that underpin
linguistic authority in the modern western world, and gives an
overview of a shift in the ideological grounding of linguistic
authority in contemporary Catalonia. Part II examines discourses in
the media surrounding three public linguistic controversies: an
immigrant president's linguistic competence, a municipal festival,
and an international book fair. Part III explores individuals'
linguistic practices and views, drawing on classroom ethnographies
and interviews with two generations of young people from the same
high school. Woolard argues that there is an ongoing shift at both
public and personal levels away from the ethnolinguistic
authenticity that powered relations in the early transition to
political autonomy, and toward new discourses of anonymity, rooted
cosmopolitanism, and authenticity understood as a project rather
than a matter of origins and essence.
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