The introduction of the official language concept into Spanish political language (1881-1928) Authors Daniel Escribano Universität Konstanz. Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft. Keywords: history of linguistic law, official language, language conflict, Catalan, Spanish. Abstract This paper tracks the origins of the ‘official language’ concept in the territory of the Spanish monarchy. The term ‘official language’ was introduced into legal-political language by the Catalanist movement as a synthetic expression of its claims for the use of the Catalan language in all social areas and particularly in governmental spheres. The chronological framework extends from the first use of the term in 1881 to the Provisional Constitution of the Catalan Republic of 1928, which was the last programmatic document of political Catalanism with specifically linguistic provisions to be drafted before any language was constitutionally declared official.Keywords: history of linguistic law, official language, language conflict, Catalan, Spanish. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2015-04-30 Issue No. 24 (2014): Les ideologies lingüístiques Section Secció Miscel·lània 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.
