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Publication details [#51676]

Frekko, Susan E. 2009. “Normal” in Catalonia: Standard language, enregisterment and the imagination of a national public. Language in Society 38 (1) : 71–93.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | ideology | national language | register | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Catalan

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper employs Catalan ethnographic and media data to discuss the relationship between standard language ideologies and the portrait of a national public, focusing on language professionals as stewards of the Catalan standard register.