Ways of seeing language in nineteenth-century Galicia, Spain

Authors

José del Valle, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter or Section

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

This article discusses a language-ideological debate surrounding Galician between two Spanish intellectuals – one Andalusian, Juan Valera, and one Galician, Manuel Murguía – who clashed on the desirability of the literary cultivation of the language. This encounter is framed as a language ideological debate and interpreted in the context of Spain’s late nineteenth-century politics of regional and national identity.

Comments

This work was originally published in "Invisible Languages in the Nineteenth Century," edited by Anna Havinga and Nils Langer.