The architect of modern Catalan : selected writings / / Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948) ; selection and edition of texts and introduction by Joan Costa Carreras ; translation by Alan Yates ; prologue by Georg Kremnitz

• Autore: Fabra Pompeu <1868-1948.>
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia ; ; Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 409.2; B
• Soggetto topico: Catalan language
• Altri autori: Costa CarrerasJ (Joan) YatesAlan <1944->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Architect of Modern Catalan -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Pompeu Fabra University and the Architect of modern Catalan -- Pompeu Fabra -- Pompeu Fabra: A universal linguist -- Prologue -- 1. General presentation -- 2. The Catalan language -- 2.1 The Catalan language domain -- 2.2 The demography of Catalan -- 2.3 The dialect divisions of Catalan -- 2.4 The concept of a language community -- 2.5 An outline of the social history of Catalan -- 2.6 Bibliography and sources of information on Catalan -- 3. Pompeu Fabra: A life's work in applied linguistics -- Introduction -- 3.2 Pompeu Fabra: Biographical outline -- 3.3 Pompeu Fabra as theoretician of the literary language -- 3.4 Pompeu Fabra as grammarian -- 3.5 Pompeu Fabra as lexicographer -- 3.6 Pompeu Fabra as translator -- 3.7 Pompeu Fabra and toponymy -- 3.8 Pompeu Fabra as a manager of linguistic diversity -- 3.9 Texts by Pompeu Fabra -- 3.10 Basic bibliography on Pompeu Fabra's work -- 4. Presentation of the edition -- 4.1 The texts included in the anthology -- 4.2 About the translation -- Selected writings of Pompeu Fabra -- [1] On linguistic and orthographical reform -- [2] On various unresolved issues in present-day literary Catalan -- [3] Eradicating Castilian influence: our descastellanitzants -- [4] Writers need grammar -- [5] Writers and grammarians -- [6] The norms of the Institut d 'Estudis Catalans -- [7] Castilianisms in the written language -- [8] Philologists and poets -- [9] The task of the Valencian and Balearic writers -- [10] In pursuit of purity in the language: Castilianisms (18/XI/1919) -- [11] 12/XII/1919 -- [12] 7/I/1920 -- [13] 15/V/1920 -- [14] 25/V/1920 -- [15] 10/VIII/1920 -- [16] 30/VIII/1920 -- [17] 9/X/1920 -- [18] 3/XI/1920 -- [19] 13/XII/1922 -- [20] 30/XII/1922 -- [21] 10/II/1923. ; [22] 24/III/1923 -- [23] 25/III/1923 -- [24] 1/IV/1923 -- [25] 13/IV/1923 -- [26] 14/1V/1923 -- [27] 16/IV/1923 -- [28] 24/IV/1923 -- [29] 5/V/1923 -- [30] 13/V/1923 -- [31] 19/V/1923 -- [32] 10/VI/1923 -- [33] 17/VI/1923 -- [34] 13/XII/1923 -- [35] 16/I/1924 -- [36] 26/I/1924 -- [37] 30/I/1924 -- [38] 2/II/1924 -- [39] 5/II/1924 -- [40] 15/II/1924 -- [41] 26/III/1924 -- [42] 4/V/1924 -- [43] 10/VII/1924 -- [44] 13/VII/1924 -- [45] 5/VIII/1924 -- [46] 26/VIII/1924 -- [47] 10/IX/1924 -- [48] 13/IX/1924 -- [49] The task of purifying Catalan -- [50] A conversation with Pompeu Fabra -- [51] 17/VI/1926 -- [52] 12/IX/1926 -- [53] 17/VI/1927 -- [54] 12/VI/1928 -- [55] On the purification of the literary language -- [56] The normalisation of grammar -- [57] Preface to the first edition of the Diccionari general de la llengua Catalana (1932) -- [58] Deviations in the concepts of language and Homeland -- [59] Presidential address to the Barcelona Jocs Florals (1934) -- Index of names and concepts -- Index of names and concepts.
• Sommario/riassunto: Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948) is renowned as the person who reformed and codified modern Catalan, giving it the condition of a normativised language of culture that proved fit to meet all the challenges of the twentieth century. The context in which he worked was defined by the ideology and momentum of a dynamic Catalan nationalism emerging out of the nineteenth-century cultural revival movement, energies which have continued to affect politics in the Spanish state through to the present. The imposing corpus of Fabra's writings -newspaper articles, lectures and papers, various grammars and the redaction of the official dictionary of Catalan- covered all aspects of the normativisation and the social normalisation of a rejuvenated national language. His work was, moreover, abreast of the most advanced developments in the newly emerging discipline of modern linguistics.The present volume was conceived in response to expressions of disappointment that the figure and the intellectual contributions of Pompeu Fabra have remained virtually unrecognised internationally. Some rectification of this situation is offered by this first ever translation into English of a representative selection of his writings, accompanied by the first substantial study on him in that language. In this way his work should be made much more accessible to the international community of linguists and of specialists in various branches of the social sciences, for whom Fabra's exclusive dedication to Catalan retains great relevance.
• Titolo autorizzato: The architect of modern Catalan
• ISBN: 1-282-39555-6; 9786612395550; 90-272-8924-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817475903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II