La defensa de la lengua propia en un contexto de diglosia literaria en Cataluña, Portugal y el Reino de Valencia en los siglos XVI y XVII.

THE DEFENSE OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE IN A CONTEXT OF LITERARY DIGLOSSIA IN CATALONIA, THE KINGDOM OF VALENCIA AND PORTUGAL IN THE 16^TH AND 17^TH CENTURIES.

ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis; SPANISH language; CATALAN language; PORTUGUESE language; LANGUAGE & languages

The purpose of this study is to analyze the coexistence of Spanish with Catalan and Portuguese respectively in Catalonia, the Kingdom of Valencia and Portugal in the 16th and 17th century. Therefore we use the concept of literary disglossia, based on the concept proposed by Fishman. We propose two hypotheses to guide the analysis: first, the language praises are part of a typical phenomenon of that time, the literary pre-eminence battles between territories and second, that there are, to a higher or to a lower degree, authors in the three territories who reject to use the prestigious language, because they consider that this would jeopardize the purpose of glorification of the territory. Results show that in the three territories the language is used indeed as an excellence of it in order to emphasize its dignity. In Catalonia and Portugal there are several authors who reject the use of Spanish to glorify their own language, while in the Kingdom of Valencia most authors do not see any contradiction between praising their language, but doing it in another one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo analizar la coexistencia del castellano con el catalán y portugués en Cataluña, el Reino de Valencia y Portugal, respectivamente, durante los siglos XVI y XVII principalmente. Para dicho fin, se utiliza el concepto de diglosia literaria, el cual parte del concepto propuesto por Fishman. Se plantean dos hipótesis que guiarán el análisis: las alabanzas de las lenguas forman parte de un fenómeno característico de aquella época, las batallas preeminenciales entre territorios en el ámbito literario, y segundo, que en mayor o menor medida hay autores en los tres territorios que rechazan el uso de la lengua de prestigio porque consideran que precisamente sería contrario al objetivo de glorificar su territorio. Se evidencia que efectivamente en los tres territorios la lengua se usa como excelencia de ellos con el objetivo de destacar su alta dignidad. En Cataluña y Portugal existen varios autores que rechazan el uso del castellano para la glorificación de su propia lengua, mientras que en el Reino de Valencia la gran mayoría no considera que haya una contradicción en alabar la lengua propia usando otra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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