An Approach to the Study of the Political Linguistic Landscape in the Basque Country: Comparative Analysis between Vitoria-Gasteiz and Zizurkil
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https://doi.org/10.12795/PH.2024.v38.i01.07Keywords:
linguistic landscape, sociolinguistic reality, linguistic attitude, Basque language, Spanish languageAbstract
This paper discusses the political linguistic landscape in the Basque Country. Two sociolinguistically different places are compared: a guipuscoan town where more than 60% of the population speak Basque and the city of Vitoria, with 80% of inhabitants having Spanish as a mother tongue. Based on this reality, the following paper analyses language representations with political content in the linguistic landscape to determine the difference in the use and election of both official languages in the Basque Country. It concludes that Basque is the prioritized language in the signs of ideological character.
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