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Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Paul E. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1996
Catalan, although a minority language within Spain, enjoys great prestige within Catalonia. This article attempts to explain how conflicts in Europe, national and Catalan election politics, educational policies, and the "cold war" waged against the Catalan government together affected a change in public opinion toward a reluctance to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedO'Donnell, Paul E. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Interviews with Catalan- or Castilian-speaking children of parents from each of those linguistic backgrounds found that there were fewer "mixed" families than previously suggested by research and that association with one dialect frequently depended on such diverse factors as type of school attended, neighborhood, and desire for social…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Dialects, Foreign Countries
