Cómo te llamas? | Carlos Faura Miguel
Towards the end of last year I was in the computer room of the school, alone, can not remember clearly what things ready for my students. Then he entered the classroom Mariona, one of the kindergarten teachers, accompanied by a small group of about 10 or 12 children. envolope Probably for the look and ease were P5. Mariona, with the plan that characterizes told them what they would do with computers and more than one of these creatures, with considerable fluency and phonetic very own a Catalan-speaking family life, made him questions about the activities envolope that awaited them.
I admit that I was surprised that I asked in Spanish and did not respond immediately. Nothing tenths of a second, and when he was going to do because I had advanced Mariona saying, "(Name-of-child), why you speak in Spanish, Charles?"
The response of the child, without feeling at all uncomfortable with the larger natural world and the power of knowing that he had a good reason, was a magnitude of sociolinguistics bomb: "THAT IS NOT KNOW!"
This situation, however, was added in my minds a few more similar characteristics over which long ago that I reflect. The subject interests me and I have done some reading on this issue.
The history of the Catalan language is complex, difficult. It is surrounded by magnificent and extremely powerful two languages, Spanish and the French, who on more than one occasion and not many have been poques- envolope their respective speakers, and more, political powers have been very aggressive with our language. The denial of this hostile envolope aggression is in fact an example. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is also a sign of ignorance, ignorance of a lot of good people on this issue. And, even more unfortunately, the result of a false, toxic and interested information.
The Catalan language coexists (that would be too naive to live there), for three centuries, the Spanish territories in the Principality (the administrative Catalonia "las four provinces") of Valencia, the Balearic Islands envolope and West of the Strip (Aragon); and four centuries with the French language in the so-called Northern Catalonia. Even older is the coexistence envolope of Catalan Sardinian, and more recently with the Italian-Alghero, the city of the island of Sardinia. In all these areas the Catalan language has remained alive despite the prohibitions, humiliation, persecution (France envolope reached to apply the death penalty) and at best with indifference. However, perhaps because envolope people in these territories could speak again, always used it despite the difficulties envolope mentioned above.
If instead of using a register envolope so we use a more narrative exhibition, we can say that the Catalan language has survived for the last three or four centuries, mainly thanks to those who spoke used, despite the difficulties, as first language. It is understood that the first language is always used first. That is, apart from being the language spoken predominantly both with family and with friends and acquaintances, it is also the language spoken when he goes out and buy when you take a taxi when one is addressed to a person unknown when the children envolope go out to play in the yard, etc.
Today it can be stated that all Catalan know in another. envolope This is the case of the Spanish territories envolope of Spain, the French in northern Catalonia, and of course the Italian Sardinian town of Alghero.
The sociolinguistic situation in each of these territories envolope is quite different and requires a different analysis and also sectioned. For questions, but strictly practical and obvious-this text is necessarily Short-, reduiré smallest reflection and bounded geographic area of Catalonia.
The massive presence of Catalan citizens newcomers from other parts of Spain, envolope makes it almost envolope more than half of the current population of Catalonia is the first Spanish-language. If we add the new phenomenon of immigration, envolope we see that the picture becomes quite complex envolope and under the circumstances, also quite complicated. In Barcelona, specifically, and in everyday envolope spoken now around envolope a hundred languages. Language communities are established so nearly constant in our city from all over the world. And all the people who live in Catalonia need a common language.
What, in this case, the question that concerns me most? Well, and so trench and short, for the first time in history and a massive, many Catalan
Towards the end of last year I was in the computer room of the school, alone, can not remember clearly what things ready for my students. Then he entered the classroom Mariona, one of the kindergarten teachers, accompanied by a small group of about 10 or 12 children. envolope Probably for the look and ease were P5. Mariona, with the plan that characterizes told them what they would do with computers and more than one of these creatures, with considerable fluency and phonetic very own a Catalan-speaking family life, made him questions about the activities envolope that awaited them.
I admit that I was surprised that I asked in Spanish and did not respond immediately. Nothing tenths of a second, and when he was going to do because I had advanced Mariona saying, "(Name-of-child), why you speak in Spanish, Charles?"
The response of the child, without feeling at all uncomfortable with the larger natural world and the power of knowing that he had a good reason, was a magnitude of sociolinguistics bomb: "THAT IS NOT KNOW!"
This situation, however, was added in my minds a few more similar characteristics over which long ago that I reflect. The subject interests me and I have done some reading on this issue.
The history of the Catalan language is complex, difficult. It is surrounded by magnificent and extremely powerful two languages, Spanish and the French, who on more than one occasion and not many have been poques- envolope their respective speakers, and more, political powers have been very aggressive with our language. The denial of this hostile envolope aggression is in fact an example. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is also a sign of ignorance, ignorance of a lot of good people on this issue. And, even more unfortunately, the result of a false, toxic and interested information.
The Catalan language coexists (that would be too naive to live there), for three centuries, the Spanish territories in the Principality (the administrative Catalonia "las four provinces") of Valencia, the Balearic Islands envolope and West of the Strip (Aragon); and four centuries with the French language in the so-called Northern Catalonia. Even older is the coexistence envolope of Catalan Sardinian, and more recently with the Italian-Alghero, the city of the island of Sardinia. In all these areas the Catalan language has remained alive despite the prohibitions, humiliation, persecution (France envolope reached to apply the death penalty) and at best with indifference. However, perhaps because envolope people in these territories could speak again, always used it despite the difficulties envolope mentioned above.
If instead of using a register envolope so we use a more narrative exhibition, we can say that the Catalan language has survived for the last three or four centuries, mainly thanks to those who spoke used, despite the difficulties, as first language. It is understood that the first language is always used first. That is, apart from being the language spoken predominantly both with family and with friends and acquaintances, it is also the language spoken when he goes out and buy when you take a taxi when one is addressed to a person unknown when the children envolope go out to play in the yard, etc.
Today it can be stated that all Catalan know in another. envolope This is the case of the Spanish territories envolope of Spain, the French in northern Catalonia, and of course the Italian Sardinian town of Alghero.
The sociolinguistic situation in each of these territories envolope is quite different and requires a different analysis and also sectioned. For questions, but strictly practical and obvious-this text is necessarily Short-, reduiré smallest reflection and bounded geographic area of Catalonia.
The massive presence of Catalan citizens newcomers from other parts of Spain, envolope makes it almost envolope more than half of the current population of Catalonia is the first Spanish-language. If we add the new phenomenon of immigration, envolope we see that the picture becomes quite complex envolope and under the circumstances, also quite complicated. In Barcelona, specifically, and in everyday envolope spoken now around envolope a hundred languages. Language communities are established so nearly constant in our city from all over the world. And all the people who live in Catalonia need a common language.
What, in this case, the question that concerns me most? Well, and so trench and short, for the first time in history and a massive, many Catalan
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