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This book documents linguistic practices and ideologies toward language, identity,
and nationalism among 35 members of the first generation in Spain to grow up with
democracy and Catalan language normalization. Part I reproduces, translates, and
analyzes artifacts (1975 1998) concerning language shift, linguistic nationalism, and
Europeanization, illustrating contemporaneous sociologies of language and
globalization in Catalonia. Part II transcribes, translates, and ethnographically
analyzes oral histories from 2017 Barcelona Metro, detailing ways of speaking (about
topics like identity, cultural malaise, politics, and self-determination) involving
globalization processes. Part III analyzes variation in ideologies and ideological
changes (1995 2017) based on childhood linguistic exposure and adult network ties,
unpacking emergent lexical coding that indexes globalizing values and worldviews.
This book will be of interest to fields including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology,
sociology, communications, political science, Iberian studies, and Catalan studies.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: The Sociology of Language from 1975 to 1998.- Chapter 2: The Generation of 1995 in Catalonia: The first children of both democracy and the linguistic normalization of Catalan.- Chapter 3: Boundary-breaking language ideological practices and the spread of language-borne cultural products, 1975-1998.- Chapter 4: Language artifacts from the 1980s and 1990s: Government Resources.- Chapter 5: Language artifacts from the 1980s and 1990s: Beyond Government Resources.- Part II: Ethnographic analysis of retrospective discourses produced in 2017.- Chapter 6: In their own words: Language, identity, and fer país.- Chapter 7: In their own words: The language of cultural malaise.- Chapter 8: In their own words: Language, political economy, and democracy.- Chapter 9: In their own words: El dret a decidir and el procés.- Part III: Variationist analysis of ideologies and of longitudinal ideological change (1995-2017).- Chapter 10: A framework for quantitative analysis.- Chapter 11: By the numbers.- Chapter 12: What do you mean by Castilian and Spain?.- Chapter 13: Conclusion.- Index.
About the author
Robert E. Vann is Professor of Spanish linguistics at Western Michigan University,
USA. He is founding director of DARDOSIPCAT (the Digital ARchive to DOcument
Spanish In the Països CATalans) and author of Materials for the sociolinguistic
description and corpus-based study of Spanish in Barcelona: Toward a documentation
of colloquial Spanish in naturally occurring groups (2009).
Summary
This book documents linguistic practices and ideologies toward language, identity,
and nationalism among 35 members of the first generation in Spain to grow up with
democracy and Catalan language normalization. Part I reproduces, translates, and
analyzes artifacts (1975–1998) concerning language shift, linguistic nationalism, and
Europeanization, illustrating contemporaneous sociologies of language and
globalization in Catalonia. Part II transcribes, translates, and ethnographically
analyzes oral histories from 2017 Barcelona Metro, detailing ways of speaking (about
topics like identity, cultural malaise, politics, and self-determination) involving
globalization processes. Part III analyzes variation in ideologies and ideological
changes (1995–2017) based on childhood linguistic exposure and adult network ties,
unpacking emergent lexical coding that indexes globalizing values and worldviews.
This book will be of interest to fields including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology,
sociology, communications, political science, Iberian studies, and Catalan studies.
