Who rules the language?: Codifying orality in a dispersed community

• Nicolau Dols ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Illes Balears
• Localización: History of Catalonia and its implications for contemporary nationalism and cultural conflict / coord. por Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines Peres, 2021, ISBN 9781799866152, págs. 198-213
• Idioma: español
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  • Greater attention is paid to oral language by the new prescriptive grammar of Catalan recently issued by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, and several prescriptive or guiding texts on the same topic published by Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua have put under focus a territorial conflict on language authority and raised questions on the limits between external authority and personal competence in a field (spoken language) especially favorable for the persistence of diversity. This chapter offers a discussion on prescriptivism and standardization in contemporary Catalan, and the conflict experienced on two axes: horizontal or territorial and vertical or bottom-up/top-down options in prescriptivism.