“Urquijote’s judicial crusade against the Basque language”: a single-faced “enemy”? Authors Beñat Garaio Mendizabal Eusko Ikaskuntza Keywords: Basque language, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain, language ideologies, sociolinguistics, linguistic rights, language conflict. Abstract In this article we will analyze the judicial appeals lodged by the Spanish Government Delegation in the Basque Autonomous Community against institutional initiatives aiming to revitalize the Basque language. In particular, we will look closely at the high-profile figure of Carlos Urquijo, the Government Delegate between 2012 and 2016, and the strategy of confrontation which he implemented and which was opposed by the euskalgintza, the movement in favor of Basque. According to the author, the judicial appeals lodged by the Delegate could have given rise to a more resilient and constructive reaction addressed to reinforcing the linguistic ideologies favorable to Basque, which is now in a phase in which its significant process of revitalization is slowing down. For the development of this research, a list of appeals lodged by Urquijo and his team will be compiled and various political-science and sociolinguistics theories will be the object of study and reflection.Keywords: Basque language, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain, language ideologies, sociolinguistics, linguistic rights, language conflict. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Beñat Garaio Mendizabal, Eusko Ikaskuntza Investigador en el grup e5 (Escenaris del Futur pel Euskera) d'Eusko Ikaskuntza - Societat d'Estudis Bascos i coordinador del cicle per conèixer idiomes minoritzats "Hitz Adina Mintzo" a la Casa de l'Euskera Oihaneder de Vitòria-Gasteiz. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2018-07-13 Issue No. 28 (2018): Llengua i poder Section Secció monogràfica. «Llengua i poder» License Intellectual property Intellectual property in articles belongs to the respective authors. By submitting their articles to TSC to request their publication, authors agree to the following: Authors assign all rights of reproduction, public communication and distribution of articles submitted for publication in TSC to the SCS (a subsidiary of the IEC). Authors are accountable to the SCS for the authorship and originality of their articles. It is the responsibility of authors to obtain permissions to reproduce graphic material sourced from elsewhere and included in their articles. The SCS may not be held liable for any possible violation of intellectual property rights by authors. Material published in TSC is subject - unless otherwise indicated in the text or in graphic material - to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Spain (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) licence, the full text of which can be found at this link. Accordingly, the general public may reproduce, distribute and communicate the article provided the author and publisher are acknowledged and as long as no commercial or derivative use is made of the article. TSC cannot be held responsible for ideas and opinions as expressed by the authors of articles published in the journal.
