Linguistic belonging: the case of the Balearic Islands Authors Joan Melià Garí Universitat de les Illes Balears. Departament de Filologia Catalana. Keywords: Catalan, Balearic Islands, linguistic secessionism, linguistic prejudice, dialect, linguistic and cultural belonging, language awareness. Abstract This paper discusses the complexity marking the degree of acceptance of the identity, name and unitary model of the Catalan language as determined according to the data obtained from various statistical sources covering the last thirty years. It also deals with the influence of governmental actions on this complexity and the causes explaining why, after more than a century of recurrent debate, the opinions, stances and reasonings are the same as in the beginning. Lastly, a comparison is made between the situation in the Balearic Islands and that found in other places, with an analysis of the connections between the respective linguistic opinions and the partisan use to which they are put.Keywords: Catalan, Balearic Islands, linguistic secessionism, linguistic prejudice, dialect, linguistic and cultural belonging, language awareness. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2015-04-30 Issue No. 24 (2014): Les ideologies lingüístiques Section Secció monogràfica. Les ideologies 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.
