The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Vicente Lledó-Guillem (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 250 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-72079-1 (ISBN)

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The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that shaped national identities in the Iberian Peninsula and, consequently, neighboring areas of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. The innovative textual approach taken in these pages exposes the multifaceted ways in which the boundaries between the region's most prestigious languages were contested, and demonstrates how linguistic identities were linked to ongoing struggles for political power. As the analysis reveals, the ideological construction of Occitan would play a crucial role in the construction of a unified Catalan, and Catalan would, in turn, give rise to a fervent debate around 'Spanish' language that has endured through the present day. This book will appeal to students and scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics, Catalan language and linguistics, anthropological linguistics, Early Modern literature and culture, and the history of the Mediterranean.

Vicente Lledó-Guillem is Professor of Spanish and Catalan at Hofstra University, New York. His primary field of research is the political, ideological, and cultural history of the Spanish and Catalan languages. He is the author of Literatura o imperio: la construcción de las lenguas castellana y catalana en la España renacentista (2008).

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: The political use of the Occitan language by the Catalan-Aragonese monarchy; Chapter 2: The Rise of Catalan as a Royal Language: Bernat Desclot's account of the Battle of Castellammare in response to Bernat d'Auriac's sirventés; Chapter 3: The politics of the linguistic discontinuity of Occitan versus the continuity of Catalan: the Sermó by Ramon Muntaner.- Chapter 4: Catalan and Occitan versus Aragonese: the poetic ceremony following the Coronation of Alfonso the Benign in Muntaner's Crònica.- Part II: The interpretation of the Catalan-Occitan relationship in the construction of the Spanish Empire.- Chapter 5: The historical (dis)continuity of the Catalan language and the linguistic creation of the Spanish Empire: Ausiàs March in the Early Modern Period.- Chapter 6: A unitary Catalan-Occitan language in the Early Modern Period: the exaltation of Apitxat Valencian.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

"I find Lledó-Guillem's monograph to be brilliant, innovative, and groundbreaking. ... this book is a must-have to both students and scholars in Medieval and Early Modern political, cultural, and intellectual history, European studies, Romance languages, historical sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. It is a work that will be referenced and cited for years to come." (Josef Fioretta, Scripta, Issue 11, June, 2018)

“I find Lledó-Guillem‘s monograph to be brilliant, innovative, and groundbreaking. … this book is a must-have to both students and scholars in Medieval and Early Modern political, cultural, and intellectual history, European studies, Romance languages, historical sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. It is a work that will be referenced and cited for years to come.” (Josef Fioretta, Scripta, Issue 11, June, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	03.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 250 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Aragonese • Ausiàs March • Bernat Desclot, Crònica • Catalan • Catalan-Aragonese monarchy • Crown of Aragon • Early Modern linguistics • Gaspar Escolano, Década primera • Linguistic Anthropology • Linguistic historiography • linguistic nationalism • Medieval linguistics • Nationalism • Occitan • Philology • Ramon Muntaner • Sicilian Vespers • Spanish Empire
ISBN-10	3-319-72079-1 / 3319720791
ISBN-13	978-3-319-72079-1 / 9783319720791
Zustand	Neuware