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A political history of Spanish : the making of a language / / edited by Jose del Valle [[electronic resource]]
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 430 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 460.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Spanish language - Political aspects - History |
Communication in politics - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Spanish-speaking countries Politics and government |
Persona (resp. second.): | ValleJosé del |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Theoretical underpinnings -- 1 Language, politics and history: an introductory essay -- Historical grammar and the scientificization of language studies -- The idealist challenge: redefining the relationship between language and human will -- Language, society and history -- Language and politics -- Towards glottopolitical history: metalanguage and ideology -- A political history of Spanish: the making of a language -- Part II The making of Spanish: Iberian perspectives -- 2 Introduction to the making of Spanish: Iberian perspectives -- 3 The prehistory of written Spanish and the thirteenth-century nationalist zeitgeist -- Introduction -- Syntax -- Semantics -- The lexicon -- Morphology -- 4 Language, nation and empire in early modern Iberia -- Language and empire -- Language and nation -- Between the local and the global: for a connected history of Spanish in the early modern age -- 5 The seventeenth-century debate over the origins of Spanish: links of language ideology to the Morisco question -- Introduction -- Aldrete in polemical context -- The origins of the origins debate -- Origins of the parchment: the racialization of the Moriscos -- The debate over the expulsion of the Moriscos -- The Sacromonte forgeries as proposed solution -- The role of language in the Sacromonte polemics -- Ideologies of language in López Madera and Aldrete -- Theme 1: locus of language -- Theme 2: honor in antiquity versus perfectibility -- Theme 3: linguistic consequences of conquest -- Theme 3a: lessons of specific conquests -- Theme 4: mastery of second language -- Summary: contrasting linguistic ideologies -- Aldrete: mutability and perfectibility -- López Madera: origins and essences -- 6 The institutionalization of language in eighteenth-century Spain. |
Absolutism and the new technologies of language -- A regalist in the court -- The Marquis and the lawyer -- Game of mirrors: the Council of Castile and the Royal Spanish Academy -- Epilogue: the RAE, school of nation and "fábrica de discretos"8 -- 7 The officialization of Spanish in mid-nineteenth-century Spain: the Academy's authority -- The officialization of orthography -- Public debate over the officialization of orthography -- The officialization of grammar -- Contextualization and conclusions -- 8 Spanish and other languages of Spain in the Second Republic -- Unamuno: 'The discursive creator of the Spanish Republic' -- National religion, language worship and imperialism -- National sentiment versus regional resentment -- Language struggle and bilingualism -- Ramón Menéndez Pidal: the Spanish language and the Spanish nation -- Articles 4and 48/50 of the Constitution -- Parliamentary debates: intransigent versus conciliatory stances -- Conclusion: "the heart of national unity" -- Part III The making of Spanish: Latin American and Transatlantic perspectives -- 9 Introduction to the making of Spanish: Latin American and Transatlantic perspectives -- Introduction -- Multiple histories and multiple ideologies: discourses on language in Latin America -- Conclusion -- 10 Language, religion and unification in early colonial Peru -- Colonial policies on the language of Castile -- The Misceláneas and the unifying discourse of language -- By way of a conclusion: the Incas and the origin of Spanish -- 11 Grammar and the state in the Southern Cone in the nineteenth century -- The grammarians of the first revolutionary decade -- On punctuation -- Pronunciation and orthography -- Grammatical traditions -- Grammars of the decade before national organization -- Pronunciation, punctuation and orthography -- Language varieties and normativity in Sastre. | |
Grammatical analysis -- Conclusion -- 12 The politics of lexicography in the Mexican Academy in the late nineteenth century -- The RAE's expansion program -- The Mexican subsidiary -- The voice of Mexicans in the DRAE -- From one common source -- Conclusion -- 13 Language in the Dominican Republic: between Hispanism and Panamericanism -- Feeling Spanish: Dominican historiographers and nationalist discourses -- Against Panamericanism -- Enacting linguistic agency -- Linguistic representation in the Dominican Republic -- Conclusion -- 14 Language diversity and national unity in the history of Uruguay -- Introduction -- The birth of modern Uruguay: the border and Portuguese as a problem -- Delimitation of borders and hispanization: Varela and the Decree-Law for General Education (Decreto-Ley de Educación Común) -- Regulation of the Decree-Law for General Education in border schools -- Borders, immigrants and the construction of nationality during the first quarter of the twentieth century -- The thirties and forties: immigrants and migrant languages as a problem -- The migratory question in education -- Linguistic purism and the creation of the Academia Nacional de Letras -- Conclusions -- 15 Language debates and the institutionalization of philology in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century -- Introduction -- The establishment of the Instituto de Filología -- Arturo Costa Álvarez: "Cuidados ajenos matan al asno" or "Mind your own business" -- Vicente Rossi: "The geographical tale of 'the Language'" -- Conclusions -- 16 Linguistic emancipation and the academies of the Spanish language in the twentieth century: the 1951turning point -- Introduction -- Mexicos invitation -- Francos deal-breaker -- The inauguration -- The not-so-harmonious side of the conference -- Making sense of the debate -- Conclusion. | |
Part IV The making of Spanish: US perspectives -- 17 Introduction to the making of Spanish: US perspectives -- Introduction -- Historical overview -- Ideologies of Spanish: national identities, expansionism and migration -- Conclusion -- 18 Language, church and state in territorial Arizona -- Catholic schools -- Public schools -- Sectarian versus secular schools -- Spanish as a resource -- Responses to assimilation -- Progress on the frontier -- Conclusions -- 19 The politics of Spanish and English in territorial New Mexico -- History and socio-demographics of New Mexico -- Education, literacy and the press -- Language and the quest for statehood: racializing language -- Conclusion -- 20 Public health and the politics of Spanish in early twentieth-century Texas -- Introduction -- Public health and biosocial categorization in Texas -- Biosocial categorization and the Movimiento Pro Salud -- The Movimiento Pro Salud and the instrumentalization of Spanish -- Conclusion -- 21 Categorizing Latinos in the history of the US Census: the official racialization of Spanish -- Mother tongue and racial classification -- Neither White nor non-White -- The linguistic origins of Hispanic origin -- From race to choice: threatening languages at the turn of the millennium -- Racializing Spanish: from mother tongue to Hispanic origin and home language use -- Part V The making of Spanish beyond Spain and the Americas -- 22 Introduction to the making of Spanish beyond Spain and the Americas -- Introduction -- Representations of Judeo-Spanish in a diasporic context -- Representations of Spanish in colonial and post-colonial contexts -- Conclusion -- 23 The status of Judeo-Spanish in the Ottoman Empire -- Judeo-Spanish: historical background -- Birth and development of Judeo-Spanish -- Western influence -- The Alliance Israélite Universelle and French culture. | |
Neo-Judeo-Spanish -- The Judeo-Spanish press -- Language and politics identity, modernity and empire -- The status of Judeo-Spanish -- Judeo-Spanish: a national language for Sephardic Jews -- The organic evolution of Judeo-Spanish -- A program for the elaboration of Judeo-Spanish -- Two languages for the Turkish Sephardim -- Conclusion -- 24 Language and the hispanization of Equatorial Guinea -- Historical synopsis -- The establishment of the missions -- The native languages and the (uncomfortable) presence of English -- Religious and educational policies -- Linguistic hispanization in the colonial newspaper Ébano -- Conclusion -- 25 The representation of Spanish in the Philippine Islands -- The Spanish language, object of affection and desire -- How many people actually spoke Spanish? -- The resistible rise of English in the Philippines -- Literary resistance and Filipino identity -- References -- Index. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book analyzes metalinguistic constructions of Spanish in specific historical and political contexts. Its structure combines the traditional chronological organization of linguistic history and spatial categories such as Iberia, Latin America and the US, whilst at the same time pointing at the limits of such organizational principles. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A political history of Spanish ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-107-27233-5 |
1-139-89038-7 | |
1-107-27176-2 | |
1-107-53365-1 | |
1-107-27508-3 | |
1-107-27834-1 | |
1-107-27385-4 | |
0-511-79433-9 | |
1-107-27711-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819521503321 |
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