Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize
Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize

A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn Woolard develops a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and uses it to illumina...