Chapter 11
Language law in the Catalan domain
The scientific study of linguistic law in the Catalan field begins, during the decade of the eighties of the twentieth century, with the approval of the first laws of linguistic normalization of the Autonomous Communities of the Spanish State, at a time when the development of this area of study is still incipient at European and world level. Theoretical studies share common premises, when articulated around the notions of official languages and Catalan as the own language and their projection in the regulation of linguistic uses in the different sectors, and adopt a propositional approach, often critical to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. As of the Judgement of 28 Of June of 2010, on the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, this constitutional jurisprudence imposes an even stricter limits to the regional legislator, that are at the same time reinterpreted restrictively by the ordinary tribunes, which supposes a clear brake to the development of these studies. The legal and doctrinal evolution in the territories located under Andorran, French and Italian jurisdiction responds to different patterns, such as the constitutionalization of Catalan as the official language of the Andorran State in the decade of the 1990s and the interpretation and deployment of constitutional notions of linguistic minority, in Italy, and regional language, in France, of application to the Catalan language in these territories.
Article outline
- 1.The recent history of language law
- 2.The evolution of language law in Catalan-speaking territories
- 3.The autonomy of language law and its relation to other disciplines
- 4.Looking to the future
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