Carla Amorós Negre - Böcker

This book offers a multi-contributor view on the linguistic landscape research in Spain, focusing on both monolingual and bilingual regions of Spain with an interest in initiatives that promote social and linguistic justice without neglecting migrant and international languages in the territory. The agency of speakers is highlighted, as well as the processes of linguistic hybridization and identity claims that are created in Spain. This volume analyzes the semiotic meaning of different languages, varieties, and discursive practices in different Spanish contexts from an ethnographic, multimodal, and critical perspective. It observes how some languages, varieties, and repertoires are privileged in top-down institutional environments, whilst others respond to bottom-up initiatives that contemplate complex processes of identity construction in Spain, in order to decide whether or not a greater balance between majority and minority languages is achieved in different contexts and spaces nowadays.

This volume commemorates the 20th anniversary of Michael Clynes seminal volume Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries published in 1992. The main focus of this volume is the exploration of linguistic standards in non-dominant varieties and the discovery of the ways in which different language communities of non-dominant varieties reconcile their wish to express their national, social and personal identity via language with their desire to adhere to a common language. Another central focus is the way in which the norms of languages, and in particular those of non-dominant varieties of pluricentric languages, can be standardized or how given standards can be changed. The papers show that the state of standardization in pluricentric languages may differ strongly from language to language and also differ between varieties of the same language.El libro conmemora el vigsimo aniversario del influyente volumen publicado por Michael Clyne en 1992, Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries. El objetivo principal consiste en explorar estndares lingüsticos en variedades no dominantes e indagar cmo las diferentes comunidades lingüsticas reconcilian la pretensin de expresar su propia identidad nacional, social y personal a travs del lenguaje con su mismo deseo de adherencia a una lengua comn. Otra cuestin central atiende a la manera en que las normas lingüsticas y, en particular, las normas de las variedades lingüsticas de lenguas pluricntricas pueden convertirse en estndares o cmo los estndares establecidos pueden ser modificados. Los diversos artculos muestran que la situacin y el grado de estandarizacin en las diversas lenguas pluricntricas pueden diferir en gran manera entre las distintas lenguas y entre variedades diferentes de una misma lengua.