A Minoritized Language on Both Sides of the Border: Legal Framework and Language Policy of Catalan in Andorra and Catalonia

Autor/in	Jiménez-Salcedo, Juan
Titel	A Minoritized Language on Both Sides of the Border: Legal Framework and Language Policy of Catalan in Andorra and Catalonia
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 38 (2019) 2, S.155-168 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
DOI	10.1515/multi-2018-0030
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language Planning; Romance Languages; Language Minorities; Official Languages; Language Role; Multilingualism; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sprachwechsel; Romanische Sprache; Sprachminderheit; Office language; Amtssprache; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Spanien
Abstract	This article analyzes the legislation of the two territories that have the most advanced legal framework regarding language policies towards Catalan: Andorra and Catalonia. The study of the legislation in relation to contexts of social and institutional use shows how this legal framework is not sufficient to change Catalan from being a minoritized language, since the phenomenon of minoritization is innate to the ecosystem in which languages develop. This ecosystem is conditioned by the presence of Castilian as a lingua franca on both sides of the border between Andorra and Catalonia. In the case of Andorra, its status as a cross-border microstate makes it a plurilingual space with Castilian as a socially cross-cutting language; moreover, the fact that until recently there was no network of state schools hindered Catalan language normalisation efforts. Catalonia, on the other hand, is an even more complex example on account of how the implementation of "llengua pròpia" policy contradicts the constitutional control the Spanish state exercises on this. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01