Language Policy and Language Repression: The Case of Spanish Basques and Mexican Americans

This paper presents the argument that there are many similarities between the linguistic and cultural repression experienced by Basques in Spain and Mexican Americans in the United States. Linguistic and cultural repression, both historically and currently, is analyzed in terms of various language policies, especially those policies related to language use in school. The struggle for and importance of bilingual education for language and cultural maintenance is discussed. The paper concludes with the caution that the rise of conservative political groups such as The English Only Movement demonstrates that concern about linguistic and cultural repression is as imperative currently as it was historically

National Identity and the Preference for State Opting-Out in the Basque Country

We argue that preferences for secession are the expression of common unobserved factors determining national identity, and accordingly that identity matters. This paper examines the hypothesis of support for secession (independent Euskadi) and Basque national identity as being dependent in the light of a reformulation of Akerloff and Kranton (2000). We examine observed economic determinants of individuals national identity (and their perceived imagined community or nation) formation as well as those that influence the propensity of individuals to support the secession.. We undertake econometric survey analysis for the Basque Country using a bivariate probit model and publicly available data from the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research. Our results suggest evidence of a common determination of national identity and political preferences for the secession of the Basque Country consistently with Akerloff and Kranton model.basque country, secession, national identity, imagined community

A Spanish Sign Language (LSE) Adaptation of the Communicative Development Inventories

This article presents the adaptation of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (CDI; Fenson et al., 1993, 1994) to Spanish Sign Language (LSE). Data were collected from 55 participants (32 boys and 23 girls; 17 deaf signers, 38 hearing signers) who, evaluated by their caregivers every four months, presented a total of 170 records. The parents reported the signs that the children could understand or produce between 8-36 months. Results suggested that the CDI adapted to LSE is a valid and reliable instrument. Signing children could understand more signs than they produced at this early developmental stage. There were no significant differences between boys and girls, or between deaf and hearing children. The development of LSE is similar to other sign languages, although with a lower production of signs in the early stages, perhaps due to the bilingualism of most of the children of our study.Se presenta la adaptación a la lengua de signos española (LSE) del Inventario de Desarrollo Comunicativo MacArthur (CDI; Fenson et al., 1993, 1994). Se recogieron datos de 55 participantes (32 niños y 23 niñas; 17 niños y niñas sordos signantes y 38 oyentes signantes), que, evaluados cada cuatro meses por sus cuidadores, representaron un total de 170 registros. Los padres y madres informaron de los signos que los niños podían producir o comprender entre los 8 y 36 meses. Los resultados sugieren que el CDI adaptado a la LSE es un instrumento válido y fiable. Los niños signantes podían entender más signos que producir en esta etapa del desarrollo temprano. No hubo diferencias significativas entre niños y niñas o entre niños sordos y oyentes. El desarrollo de la LSE es similar a otras lenguas de signos, aunque con una menor producción de signos en las etapas iniciales, quizás debido al bilingüismo de la mayoría de los niños del estudio.Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía (España), Proyectos de Excelencia (P11-SEJ-7417)

Euskara irratian: gerra aurreko lehenengo urratsak

Hoy en día la radio tiene un gran poder de comunicación y el euskera está presente en ella. La radio en euskera empezó antes de la guerra civil. Díaz nos cuenta como nació y los primeros programas de la radio en euskera antes y después de la guerra civilNowadays the radio has got a great communication power and the Basque language forms part of it. The radio in Basque started before the Civil War. Díaz tells us how it was born and the first radio programmes in Basque before and after the wa

El Libro Negro del Euskera

Reseña bibliográfica de la obra "El Libro Negro del Euskera", de Joan Mari Torrealdai que ofrece una antología de textos cuyo denominador común es el de establecer una normativa o pensamiento represivo, respecto al tratamiento social o administrativo del euskera

Crónica legislativa del País Vasco. Primer semestre de 2017

El text recull les novetats jurisprudencials i normatives relatives al règim jurídic d'ús de l'eusquera a Euskadi, produïdes en el primer semestre de 2017.This article deals with the legislative and case-law developments on the use of Basque Language in the Basque Autonomous Community during the first semester of 2017.El trabajo recoge las novedades jurisprudenciales y normativas relativas al régimen jurídico de uso del euskera en Euskadi, producidas en el primer semestre de 2017

El verbo vasco: bibliografía

Se presenta una bibliografía que es una muestra de la gran cantidad de autores que han escrito sobre el verbo vasco. Se ofrece la identidad del autor, el contenido del trabajo, la localización de estos trabajos. No se han tenido en cuenta las publicaciones sobre fonética, léxico, dialectología, etcThe author introduces a bibliography that is a sample of the great quantity of authors that have written on the Basque verb. The identity of the author, the content of the work and the location of these projects are supplied. Publications on phonetic, lexicons, dialectology, etc. have not been include