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Publication details [#46495]

Paffey, Darren. 2007. Policing the Spanish language debate: verbal hygiene and the Spanish language academy ( Real Academia Española ). Language Policy 6 (3,4) : 313–332.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | institutional context | language policy | mass media | standardization

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that language ideological debates are frequent in Spanish news media, and that the Real Academia Española takes the lead, as part of its panhispanic language policy.