What corpus language planning is in place for public television outlets in the Catalan communicative space?

• Autores: Joan Costa Carreras
• Localización: Current issues in language planning, ISSN 1466-4208, Vol. 25, Nº. 3, 2024, págs. 330-347
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article examines the latest developments in the corpus language planning interventions in the implementation of the codification (Haugen, E. (1983). The implementation of corpus planning: theory and practice. In J. Cobarrubias & J. A. Fishman (Eds.), Progress in language planning. International perspectives (pp. 269–289). Mouton.) of Catalan by Catalan-language media corporations, taking into consideration that Catalan is a pluricentric language (Darder, L. (2015). La variació lingüística en els mitjans audiovisuals com a estratègia conscient. Treballs de sociolingüística catalana, 25, 303–316. https://raco.cat/index.php/TSC/article/view/342907; Costa-Carreras, J. (2021). Compositionality, pluricentricity, and pluri-areality in the Catalan standardisation. In A. Cortijo Ocaña & V. Martines (Eds.), History of Catalonia and its implications for contemporary nationalism and cultural conflict (pp. 182–197). IGI Global; Mas Castells, J. À. (2021). Invitació al pluricentrisme. Notes per a l’estudi d’una llengua pluricèntrica en conflicte. Treballs de sociolingüísticacatalana, 31, 15–30. https://raco.cat/index.php/TSC/article/view/386900) that is standardised both de facto and de jure. It concludes that Muhr, R. (2020). European pluricentric languages in contact and conflict – An overview. In R. Muhr, J. À. Mas Castells, & J. Rueter (Eds.), European pluricentric languages in contact and conflict (pp. 11–64). Peter Lang approach to language variation management does not fit with the Catalan communicative space, and that the proposals, both of the term multi-standard by Auer, P. (2021). Reflections on linguistic pluricentricity. Sociolinguistica, 35(1), 29–47. https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0003, and of the term location by Dollinger, S. (2019). The pluricentricity debate on Austrian German and other Germanic Standard varieties. Routledge are not needed, as Mas Castells’s (2021) definition of ‘centre’ is fully pertinent for Catalan. A sociolinguistic and standardological perspective has been adopted (Joseph, J. E. (1987). Eloquence and power. The rise of language standards and standard languages. Frances Pinter; Costa-Carreras, J. (forthcoming). On the epistemological status of comparative standardology and standardisation. Caplletra, 79 (fall 2025)) to compare the style guides of three audiovisual media corporations, with an exemplification on a particular issue in relation to both prescription and use. An appropriate description of the linguistic pluricentricity of three Catalan-language media corporations (Darder 2015; Costa-Carreras 2021; Costa-Carreras, J. (2022, June 15–17). What ideological factors are relevant to analyse language variation management for Catalan? Talk presented at the Symposium Rules and incentives in language policy and planning: Economic, legal and sociolinguistic approaches; Mas Castells 2021) is therefore offered: the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation with headquarters in Catalonia, the Valencian Broadcasting Corporation with headquarters the Valencian Country, and the Broadcasting Public Entity of the Balearic Islands with headquarters in the Balearic Islands.