Linguistic landscape in a rural Basque area: a case study in Ondarroa

IF 2 1区文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

International Journal of Multilingualism Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI:10.1080/14790718.2023.2256781

Gorka Basterretxea Santiso

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Basque is one of the official languages spoken in the Basque Country and although it is usually considered the minoritised language, its situation might be different in rural areas. The presence of Basque and Spanish has been previously reported in urban areas [Cenoz, J., & Gorter, D. (2006). Linguistic landscape and minority languages. International Journal of Multilingualism, 3(1), 67–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790710608668386], but their presence in rural areas remains unknown. To address this gap, the linguistic landscape (LL) of a rural town (Ondarroa, Bizkaia) is examined. For such a purpose, the signs in the main shopping street of Ondarroa (both top-down and bottom-up signs) are included in the analysis. The results show that contrary to the situation of Basque in urban areas (Cenoz & Gorter, 2006), Basque is the language with the largest presence in the LL of the street in Ondarroa. This is an indicative of the reproduction of the linguistic situation of the town, which subverts the current institutional linguistic policies. This particular LL could be considered as highly bilingual due to the presence of bilingual signs in Basque and Spanish; the presence of Spanish monolingual signs is minimal. The analysis of this LL would indicate that Basque sometimes is the majority language, at least in rural Basque areas.

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巴斯克乡村地区的语言景观:昂达罗亚的个案研究

巴斯克语是巴斯克地区的官方语言之一，虽然它通常被认为是少数民族语言，但它在农村地区的情况可能不同。以前在城市地区也有巴斯克语和西班牙语的报道[Cenoz, J.， & Gorter, D.(2006)]。语言景观与少数民族语言。国际语言学报，3(1)，67-80。https://doi.org/10.1080/14790710608668386]，但它们在农村地区的存在仍然未知。为了解决这一差距，研究了一个乡村小镇(比斯卡亚翁达罗)的语言景观(LL)。为此，Ondarroa主要购物街的标志(包括自上而下和自下而上的标志)被纳入分析。结果表明，与巴斯克语在城市地区的情况相反(Cenoz & Gorter, 2006)，巴斯克语是在Ondarroa街道的LL中存在最多的语言。这是对城镇语言情境的再现，颠覆了现行的制度性语言政策。由于巴斯克语和西班牙语的双语标志的存在，这个特殊的LL可以被认为是高度双语的;西班牙语单语标志的出现很少。对这一语言的分析表明，巴斯克语有时是多数语言，至少在巴斯克农村地区。

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