It is called ‘Ideologies lingüístiques a la Comunitat Valenciana: Un estudi introductori’ (Linguistic Ideologies in the Valencian Community: An Introductory Study) and the author is Vicente LLedó-Guillem.
This book addresses two fundamental issues: on one hand, it explains the concept of linguistic ideologies with their inevitable political consequences. Three examples are given: cultural nationalism, historical continuity of the language and sociolinguistic naturalism.
On the other hand, it shows how these ideologies played a central role during the municipal elections in the Valencian Community on 28 May 2023.
In this sense, the book analyses the agreement between the two parties that formed the Valencian Government and their respective electoral programmes.
All the titles in the Cuadernos de Estudio Collection can be found with access to the full text in Publications > Collections section of the UV Chair for Linguistic Rights website.
Table of contents
Part One. THE CONCEPT OF LINGUISTIC IDEOLOGIES
- Cultural nationalism
- Linguistic continuity in studies of the history of language and culture
- Sociolinguistic naturalism
Part Two. POLITICAL CONTEXT AND RESULTS OF THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS OF 20 MAY 2023 IN THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY.
Part Three. THE ISSUE OF THE CATALAN COUNTRIES
Joan Fuster (1922-1992) and the Països Catalans. The Popular Party and the exaltation of Valencian as an authentic language different from Catalan.
Part Four. THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN PP AND VOX: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE VALENCIAN IDENTITY IN THE FORM OF A PALIMPSEST
An illustrative example: Open or Closed Accent?
Part Five. CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the author, Vicente Lledó-Guillem
Born in Ibi, Alicante (1974), Professor Lledó-Guillem is a professor of Hispanic Studies at Hofstra University (New York). His speciality is the history of the Catalan and Spanish languages from an ideological, cultural and political perspective. Within this approach, Vicent Lledó-Guillem also pays close attention to literary texts where he looks for, among other aspects, elements related to linguistic ideologies such as, for example, the relationship between language and identity.
