Language Artifacts from the 1980s and 1990s: Governmental Resources
摘要
This chapter documents 11 authentic artifacts of Catalan language normalization from Gen ’95ers’ childhood and adolescence. Published between 1982 and 1991 and out of print circulation for over 30 years, these government-issued, language-borne cultural products (pamphlets, flyers, etc.) remain mostly undocumented in English-language publications. Vann’s documentation presents the artifacts in high resolution color with translations that allow English-language engagement with resources originally designed for consumption in Catalan. Interpretations focus on how the artifacts relate period beliefs about language to doing being Catalan, fer país Catalanism, and the progressive globalization of Catalan society. The artifacts reveal a persistent mobilization of language ideological propaganda in diverse sociocultural domains, which Vann relates to the formation of Gen ’95ers’ generation entelechy and the social engineering of language in Catalonia.