Author, as appears in the article.: Sorolla Vidal, Natxo
Department: Gestió d'Empreses
URV's Author/s: SOROLLA VIDAL, IGNACIO
Keywords: Area Demolinguistics Diglossia La franja Language skills Language use Sociolinguistic groups Sociolinguistics
Abstract: This study presents a multivariate analysis on the knowledge and language use of the population living in La Franja, following up on the preliminary analyses of the language use survey conducted in 2003 in La Franja (Sorolla 2005). The results indicate that although diglossia ends up being too abstract a concept for an analysis of the complex sociolinguistic situation of La Franja, one does observe that a majority of the Catalan-speaking population uses Catalan in situations of greatest social proximity (family, friends, neighbors...) and Spanish for anything in writing, media consumption, or other formal uses. Even so, there are other typologies of speakers in La Franja who do not adhere to this functional distribution in the use of the two languages. One of the groups that stands out among these typologies are those whose written use of Catalan is much more than something simply token, a group whose media consumption is to a large extent in Catalan. This group coexists along with significant layers of monolingual Spanishspeakers, who use only Spanish. In light of these results, the paper discusses the difficulty of applying the consensusoriented models of diglossia, at least in generalized fashion, but the paper also considers their usefulness in defining partial population segments, in this case, in La Franja. In doing so, however, it is necessary to always bear in mind the dynamic character of societies, as well as the tension that is produced therein between consensus and conflict. Key words: sociolinguistics, demolinguistics, La Franja, language skills, language use, sociolinguistic groups, diglossia, area.
Thematic Areas: Ciencias humanas Ciencias jurídicas Ciencias sociales Derecho Derecho multidisciplinar Dret Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Filologías Language and linguistics Law Lingüística Linguistics Linguistics and language Revistas de derecho Revistas de filología y linüística
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: natxo.sorolla@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-7480-0359
Record's date: 2022-07-02
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Papper original source: Revista De Llengua I Dret. (61): 87-122
APA: Sorolla Vidal, Natxo (2014). Els catalanoparlants, els diglòssics i els monolingües. Grups sociolingüístics a la Franja. Revista De Llengua I Dret, (61), 87-122. DOI: 10.2436/20.8030.02.56
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.2436/20.8030.02.56
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2014
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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