Publications

Publication details [#60196]

Ramallo, Fernando and Bernadette O'Rourke. 2015. Neofalantes as an active minority: understanding language practices and motivations for change amongst new speakers of Galician. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2015 (231) : 147–165.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | language contact | language status | minority language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Spanish, Castilian | Spanish, Galician

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

Though revitalization policies since the 1980s altered Galician's symbolic and economic worth on the linguistic market, Spanish remained the prestige language. ‘New speakers of Galician’ choose linguistic change and start off the process of majority language substitution. Their (socio)linguistic practices constitute reactions to the sociolinguistic “status quo”.