Multilingualism: A matter of national concern? Assessing Spain’s language policy through the concept of language availability Authors Vicent Climent-Ferrando Universitat Pompeu Fabra Keywords: public language policy, language availability, multilingualism, Spain, regional languages, minority languages. Abstract This article analyses the language policy in Spain vis-à-vis its territorial languages other than Spanish, often referred to as regional or minority languages (RMLs). We use the concept of language availability – understood as the possibility of using any official language in the State’s public services – to assess Spain’s degree of (in)compliance of the country’s legal requirements and the legally-binding international commitments on language policy. The application of the concept of language availability to analyse Spain’s language policy – conceived as a public policy – will provide an accurate overview of the current state of affairs regarding the country’s language policy and its commitment to multilingualism. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Vicent Climent-Ferrando, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Coordinador de la Càtedra UNESCO de Polítiques Lingüístiques per al Multilingüsime. Universitat Pompeu Fabra Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2021-03-29 Issue No. 32 (2022): L'avaluació de les polítiques lingüístiques Section Secció monogràfica. L’avaluació de les polítiques lingüístiques 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.
