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hal.structure.identifierCentre Émile Durkheim [CED]
dc.contributor.authorITÇAINA, Xabier
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0943-2787
dc.description.abstractEnThe French state is deemed to be reluctant to grant any official recognition and protec- tion of minority and regional languages, in the name of a certain Republican ethos. However, this lack of institutional support from above has been partly compensated for by some local institutional arrangements, which created new conditions for a certain recognition of regional languages. The French Basque Country illustrates well this para- doxical situation. Since the early 1990s, new institutions were set up at the territorial level for Basque language and culture. In 2005, the process of institutionalisation took a step forward with the distinction between cultural and linguistic policy and the foun- dation of the Public Office for the Basque language. These institutions resulted from compromises between the state, local elected officials and linguistic movements. A key factor here was the cross-border influence of the Spanish Basque language policy model that was used repeatedly by French Basque language activists in their negotiation with the state and with local policy-makers. This emerging linguistic policy had some mea- surable effects on language revitalisation, with a slight increase in language proficiency among the youngest generations after 2006. However, the social use of the Basque lan- guage (in the family sphere, in public services, at work) kept on declining. This paper will concentrate on the political and normative debate raised around the social use of the Basque language in France. Special attention will be paid to the use of Euskera in the economy, and to articulating the debate between the linguistic controversy and the com- peting local development models.
dc.language.isode
dc.publisherDomowina Verlag GmbH
dc.subject.enCulture
dc.subject.enInsecurity
dc.subject.enInstitutionalisation
dc.subject.enFrench basque country
dc.subject.enSocial change
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie
bordeaux.journalLetopis
bordeaux.page160-173
bordeaux.volume64
bordeaux.issue2
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhalshs-01699436
hal.version1
dc.subject.defranzösisches Baskenland
dc.subject.deInstitutionalisierung
dc.subject.deWandel
dc.subject.deUnsicherheit
dc.subject.deKultur
dc.title.deKulturelle Unsicherheit, gesellschaftlicher Wandel und territoriale Institutionalisierung am Beispiel des französischen Baskenlandes
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//halshs-01699436v1
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