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A significant movement for Catalan independence has been building
since 2010 and in 2015 is bringing Catalonia to a political
showdown with the Spanish state. The Catalan language has long been
cast as a key sign of identity and a rallying point for Catalan
nationalism. This classic anthropological study, originally
published in 1989 and now available for the first time in
paperback, provides essential background for understanding Catalan
national identity and its relationship to the distinctive Catalan
language. Author Kathryn A. Woolard analyzes language and identity
politics at a significant turning point in the modern history of
Catalonia: 1979-80, when political autonomy was re-established
after the end of the Franco dictatorship. This book examines the
formal language politics of parties and policymaking as well as the
interpersonal politics of individuals negotiating their social
identities through choices between the Catalan and Spanish
languages. This dual approach uncovers the relationship between the
public and personal meanings of the languages that continue to
resonate with Catalan national aspirations in the current political
movement. Double Talk confronts enduring questions about bilingual
life that arise not only in Spain, but also in settings worldwide.
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.
"Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether
explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human
beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and
forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather,
they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and
epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin
not only linguistic form and use, but also significant social
institutions and fundamental nottions of person and community.
The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions
of language in a wide range of societies around the world.
Contributors focus on how such defining activity organizes language
use as well as institutions such as religious ritual, gender
relations, the nation-state, schooling, and law. Beginning with an
introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the
volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of
Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuse on the propensity of
cultural models of language developed in one social domain to
affect linguistic and social behavior across domains. Part II,
"Language Ideology in Institutions of Power," continues the
examination of the force of specific language beliefs, but narrows
the scope to the central role that language ideologies play in the
functioning of particular institutions of power such as schooling,
the law, or mass media. Part III, "Multiplicity and Contention
among Ideologies," emphasizes the existence of variability,
contradiction, and struggles among ideologies within any given
society. This will be the first collection of work to appear in
this rapidly growing field, which bridges linguistic and social
theory. It will greatly interest linguistic anthropologists, social
and cultural anthropologists, sociolinguists, historians, cultural
studies, communications, and folklore scholars.
"Language ideologies" refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. This collection of essays examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and the relationships between them. The contributors look at language and its role in such fundamental social institutions as religious ritual, child socialization, gender relations, the nation-state, schooling and the law, and in doing so, link language to larger issues of identity, aesthetics, morality, and epistemology. This will be the first collection of work in this rapidly growing field.
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