Building the future of the Catalan language. A comprehensive approach Authors Isidor Marí Institut d’Estudis Catalans Keywords: Catalan language, linguistic diversity, endangered language, interpersonal linguistic behavior, institutional language policy. Abstract Given the resurgence of the debate on the future of Catalan as an endangered language, this paper analyzes and weighs the reasons that justify this concern and argues that the interpersonal use of the language does not have, in itself, the capacity to modify the adverse trends. It is necessary to influence the policies of international, state and sub-state institutions and to change the linguistic functioning of organizations of all kinds. In conclusion, a broad combination of efforts is proposed to reverse the current decline. Downloads Download data is not yet available. 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.
