Linguistic ideology opposed to the revitalisation of Galician. The case of Galicia Bilingüe

Abstract

This paper presents a critical analysis of the discourse of Galicia Bilingüe (GB), an organisation opposed to the policies promoting the Galician language. This organisation’s discourse has been chosen for study because, in Galicia, it best represents the ideology opposed to minority languages. The research covers some of the main ideas forming this ideology, such as neoliberalism and anti-Galician nationalism, as well as some of the discoursive strategies that GB uses to legitimate its ideas.

Keywords: linguistic ideologies, linguistic normalisation, Galician, critical discourse analysis.