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Publication details [#57924]

Reyes, Antonio. 2013. Don't touch my language: attitudes toward institutional language reforms. Current Issues in Language Planning 14 (2) : 337–357.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | identity negotiation | institutional context | language attitude | language change

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article classifies Spanish language users' attitudes toward language reforms submitted by the Real Academia Española in 2010, considering refusal and adoption of the changes and the most popular argumentation schemes employed. Also examined is language in relation to identity, ideology and senses of belonging.