Llengua i immigració en la Catalunya contemporània: imaginaris de l’altre i actituds lingüístiques dels parlants arran de la immigració murciana
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This article analyses the arrival in Catalonia of immigrants from Murcia in the
1920s and 1930s from the point of view of the respective language ideologies. On the basis of
documents of various kinds having more or less directly the immigrants as subjects, it presents
the components which go to make up the image of the other, and more specifically the language.
In each group the image of the other is never a static one: as a result of the contact of languages
and cultures, images and linguistic attitudes evolve. At the same time, the new sociolinguistic si -
tuation created by the immigrants’ arrival throws up markers, from demonyms to place names.
Crossing over the ideological borders which assign new and old names, the article also examines
various cases of linguistic convergence and the linguistic biography of one speaker. Lastly, this
historical approach to the language ideologies of speakers in Catalonia leads to the posing of
some theoretical and methodological problems of sociolinguistics
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